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What's new this month? Volume 29, issue 6, November-December 2019

Authors
1 Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
2 Department of Dermatology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
3 Department of Dermatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
4 Dermatology Department, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
5 Department of Dermatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitáriodo Porto, Porto, Portugal

In this issue of the European Journal of Dermatology, Hossein Zadeh Attar and colleagues investigated the value of the CD63 basophil activation test (BAT) as a diagnostic tool for assessing autoimmunity in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) [1]. Over the past years, it has become widely recognized based on experimental and clinical evidence that a proportion of CSU cases are of an autoimmune nature. However, an autologous serum skin test (ASST) result alone is not enough for a diagnosis [...]