Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURKDERM-TURKISH ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY AND VENEROLOGY, cilt.45, ss.1-2, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
As they are potentially life threatening and a significant cause of morbidity, autoimmune bullous diseases have a special place and importance among the other skin disorders. Discovery of autoantibodies of pemphigus and bullous pemphigoid by immunofluorescence techniques and first clinical use of corticosteroids are two major milestones in the history of development processes in diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune bullous diseases in early 1960s. After 1970s with development of new and further research tools led to help us better understand of etiopathogenesis of autoimmune bullous diseases and opened the way of more effective and modern treatment modalities. However, today, the limited number of randomized controlled trials about the effectiveness of certain available drugs using in the treatments of autoimmune bullous diseases is still major problem. In this special issue of Turkderm the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune bullous diseases are discussed by experienced authors from different dermatology clinics in Turkey.