Correlation between the histopathology of chronic urticaria and its clinical picture

• Main Authors: Raquel Zappa Silva Marques (Author), Roberta Fachini Jardim Criado (Author), Carlos D'Apparecida Santos Machado Filho (Author), Juliana Milhomem Tamanini (Author), Cristina van Blarcum de Graaff Mello (Author), Carolina Speyer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract BACKGROUND: Chronic urticaria is characterized by transient, pruritic lesions of varying sizes, with central pallor and well-defined edges, with disease duration longer than six weeks. Its cellular infiltrate consists of neutrophils, lymphocytes and eosinophils. There is a subgroup of patie...