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Direct Immunofluorescence Staining Patterns in Blistering Disorders

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Practice Question Answers

1. Which autoimmune blistering disease shows deposition of immunoglobulin on the floor of salt-split skin?
a. BP
b. dermatitis herpetiformis
c. epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
d. paraneoplastic pemphigus
e. PV

2. What medicine is commonly implicated in drug-induced pemphigus?
a. acetaminophen
b. amoxicillin
c. naproxen
d. penicillamine
e. penicillin

3. Which autoimmune blistering disease predominantly shows deposition of IgG on DIF?
a. dermatitis herpetiformis
b. IgA pemphigus
c. linear IgA bullous dermatosis
d. paraneoplastic pemphigus
e. porphyria cutanea tarda

4. Which of the following diseases has a negative direct immunofluorescence?
a. dermatitis herpetiformis
b. herpes gestationis
c. pemphigus vulgaris
d. porphyria cutanea tarda
e. transient acantholytic dermatosis

5. Which of the following diseases shows a linear deposition of IgG and C3 along the dermoepidermal junction?
a. CP
b. IgA pemphigus
c. PF
d. porphyria cutanea tarda
e. PV

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