Clinical Cases in Autoimmune Blistering Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murrell, Dédée F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Clinical Cases in Dermatology ; 5
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Dermatology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This clinical case book serves as a useful guide for dermatologists, internists, family practitioners, pediatricians, and anyone else charged with the care of the skin. The case-based format distinguishes this work from a reference-style textbook, instead allowing readers to relate the presented cas...

Table of Contents:

• Diagnostic dilemmas
• What to do when only some of the tests are positive but others are negative
• The second opinion with partial treatment
• When might immunoEM be useful?
• When to send sera for blotting and ELISA
• Therapeutic issues
• When steroids are contraindicated
• When the disease is recalcitrant
• When it keeps relapsing
• When topical therapy is preferred.