Dermatitis herpetiformis: pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment

• Main Authors: Marcos Vinícius Clarindo (Author), Adriana Tomazzoni Possebon (Author), Emylle Marlene Soligo (Author), Hirofumi Uyeda (Author), Roseli Terezinha Ruaro (Author), Julio Cesar Empinotti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Researches on DH have shown that it is not just a bullous skin disease, but a cutaneous-intestinal disorder caused by hypersensitivity to gluten. Exposure to gluten is the starting point of an inflammatory cascade capable of forming autoantibodies that are brought to the skin, where they are deposit...