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Autoimmune chronic urticaria: transferability of autologous serum skin test
Serena Pastore1, Irene Berti, Giorgio Longo
1University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. pastore_serena@libero.it
European Journal of Pediatrics
|January 22, 2013
Abstract:
At least 30 % of children with chronic urticaria have an autoimmune aetiology with a positive autologous serum skin test (ASST). ASST is cheap, easy to perform and has good sensibility and specificity in detecting autoantibodies. In case of concern about reliability of ASST because of antihistamine medications, test transferability seems to be feasible.
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