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nbme micro 5 - saonew - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
A 62-year-old man develops numerous superficial blisters over the scalp, face, groin, and trunk. New lesions develop over areas subjected to minimal trauma. Biopsy of one of the lesions shows an intraepidermal blister with suprabasal acantholysis. Serologic studies are likely to show an autoantibody directed against which of the following?
A) Anchoring filaments
B) Basement membrane proteins
C) Desmosomal proteins
D) Hemidesmosomal proteins
E) Integrins
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
CC,Phemphigus
Saonew can you please specify qu is from which NBME form,I have not done with all forms
thanks
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
CCc
it attacks desmogleins
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
multivit, I dont know which one, I think it is a collection of Micro from all form
Sorry cant help
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
what is the diff between pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus vulgaris?
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
oooooops i mean pemphigus vulgaris and bullous pemphigoid?
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
oral lesions are more common with phemphigus,it is fetal than bullous
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
intraepidermal and subepidermal blister formation
Abs against desmoglein 3, autoabs against hemidesmosome
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
Great, how about acantholysis
0 - ArchivalUser - 05-24-2007
Immunoflurescence pattern
netlike pattern of IgG bet epidermal and keratinocytes phemphigus
linear deposits of IgG at epidermal dermal junction