Female Patients with Dermatitis Herpetiformis Show a Reduced Diagnostic Delay and Have Higher Sensitivity Rates at Autoantibody Testing for Celiac Disease

Objective. Our objective was to characterize the demographic information, clinical features, and laboratory data of patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Methods. In this multicentre cross-sectional study, consecutive patients with a new diagnosis of DH that referred to nine different Italian...

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Main Authors: Emiliano Antiga, Veronica Bonciolini, Simone Cazzaniga, Mauro Alaibac, Antonino Salvatore Calabrò, Carla Cardinali, Emanuele Cozzani, Angelo Valerio Marzano, Giuseppe Micali, Tarcisio Not, Pietro Quaglino, Camilla Vassallo, Luigi Naldi, Marzia Caproni, the GISED Group and the Italian Group for Cutaneous Immunopathology
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6307035