Not all chronic urticaria is "idiopathic"
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Is There Correlation between Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria and Elevated Serum IgE? A Pilot Study
Background: The etiology of urticaria is recognized only in a minority of cases. Allergies to a wide variety of agents have been suspected, as well as hyper reactivity to food additives or drugs. Recently, autoimmune reaction to immunoglobulin E (IgE) and later to high-affinity IgE receptors on mast cells has been reported. The aim of this study was to show elevated serum IgE levels in the pati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Experimental Dermatology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0906-6705,1600-0625
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.1998.tb00296.x