Small-bowel involvement in dermatitis herpetiformis and in linear-IgA bullous dermatosis

ABSTRACTIn 23 patients with dermatitis herpetiformic (DH) and five patients with linear-IgA bullous dermatosis (BD) we evaluated the occurrence of histologic jejunal changes and small-bowel function abnormalities. None of the patients showed clinical signs or symptoms of malabsorption. Morphological