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AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN

Chronic urticaria in children occurs less often than adults. Out of 17 children (age group 6-16 years, Table 2), six children (2 boys and 4 girls, 35%) showed a positive result in form of wheal and flare more than 1.5 mm than saline control. Autologous serum skin test is cheap, is easy to perform, a...

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Autor principal: Godse, Kiran V
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881988
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.39576
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description Chronic urticaria in children occurs less often than adults. Out of 17 children (age group 6-16 years, Table 2), six children (2 boys and 4 girls, 35%) showed a positive result in form of wheal and flare more than 1.5 mm than saline control. Autologous serum skin test is cheap, is easy to perform, and, if performed as appropriate, it has good sensitivity and even better specificity at detecting autoantibodies in children.
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spelling pubmed-27637202009-10-29 AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN Godse, Kiran V Indian J Dermatol Original Article Chronic urticaria in children occurs less often than adults. Out of 17 children (age group 6-16 years, Table 2), six children (2 boys and 4 girls, 35%) showed a positive result in form of wheal and flare more than 1.5 mm than saline control. Autologous serum skin test is cheap, is easy to perform, and, if performed as appropriate, it has good sensitivity and even better specificity at detecting autoantibodies in children. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2763720/ /pubmed/19881988 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.39576 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN
title AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN
title_full AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN
title_fullStr AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN
title_full_unstemmed AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN
title_short AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST IN CHILDREN
title_sort autologous serum skin test in children
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881988
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.39576
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