Assessment of skin basement membrane zone antibodies in the urine of patients with acquired subepidermal immunobullous diseases.
BACKGROUND: In bullous pemphigoid (BP), cicatricial pemphigoid (CP) and linear IgA disease (LAD), autoantibodies to the basement membrane zone (BMZ) are found in skin and mucosa, blood and blister fluid. OBJECTIVES: To assess whether BMZ antibodies might also be detected in urine. METHODS: Urine and...
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2001
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