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The role of trauma in the spreading weals of hereditary angio‐oedema
Author(s) -
WARIN R.P.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1983.tb00061.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rash , dermatology
SUMMATY Twenty patients with hereditary angio‐oedema (HAO) were regularly observed. Trauma often initiates the swellings of HAO which, once formed, may continue to spread. In the prodromal rash too, a narrow band of weals spreads out from a central point, which often corresponds to a site of trauma e.g. a pin prick. The relationship of these observations to the role of trauma in the initiation and spread of weals in other forms of urticaria is discussed.