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- Title
Clinical and investigative assessment of patients with positive versus negative autologous serum skin test: a study of 80 South Indian patients.
- Authors
Krupashankar, D S; Shashikala, K; Madala, Rama
- Abstract
Chronic urticaria (CU) is defined as urticaria persisting daily as or almost daily for more than 6 weeks and affecting 0.1% of the population. Mast cell degranulation and histamine release is of central importance in the pathogenesis of CU. About 40-50% of the patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria demonstrate an immediate wheal and flare response to intra-dermal injected autologous serum. This led to the concept of autoimmune urticaria.
- Publication
Indian journal of dermatology, 2012, Vol 57, Issue 6, p434
- ISSN
1998-3611
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.4103/0019-5154.103061