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Dermatitis Herpetiformis—What Is It?
Author(s) -
Beutner Ernst H.,
Chorzelski Tadeusz P.,
Kumar Vijay
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4362.1990.tb02558.x
Subject(s) - dermatitis herpetiformis , medicine , state (computer science) , dermatology , mathematics , disease , algorithm
V iews on the nature of dermatitis herpetiformis have undergone diverse, and at times, divergent changes. For example, in the late 1960s, when we first described autoantibodies to the basement membrane zone in cases with vesiculobullous eruptions,' the late James Jordon, Chairman of the Dermatology Department at the University of Buffalo, characterized them as dermatitis herpetiformis, consistent with the teachings of the French school of dermatology. In contrast, Walter Lever, who had just written a monograph on pemphigus and pemphigoid,^ believed the eruptions should be referred to as bullous pemphigoid. Lever's opinion prevailed in these discussions,^ and the present concepts evolved along other lines.