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Residents’ corner December 2014. sQUIZ your knowledge! Vesicular eruption in a healthy male Volume 24, numéro 6, November-December 2014

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1 Clinic of Dermatovenereology, Clinical Center of Serbia
2 Department of Dermatovenereology, Faculty of medicine, University of Belgrade

What's your diagnosis (figure 1)? The answer is on the next pageAnswer to sQUIZ: Linear immunoglobulin A dermatosisBiopsy of the lesion showed a superficial, dermal, predominantly neutrophilic infiltrate located mainly in the dermal papillae, with the formation of subepidermal blisters. A direct immunofluorescence (DIF) analysis of the perilesional skin revealed linear immunoglobulin A (IgA) deposits in the basement membrane zone. On the basis of the clinical presentation, histopathological and DIF [...]