Exam 3: Immunity and Immunologic Oral Lesions

The diagnosis of cicatricial pemphigoid is made on the basis of

Which lymphocyte matures without passing through the thymus and later can develop into a plasma cell that produces antibodies?

A person with SLE may have oral manifestations similar to which other condition?

In the mildest form of this autoimmune disease, oral lesions appear as erythematous plaques or erosions. White striae radiating from the center of the lesion are also commonly present. These oral lesions are indicative of what autoimmune disease?

What is the group of medications used to treat patients with urticaria and angioedema?

Which form of Langerhans cell disease occurs in children younger than 5 years, is multifocal, and a classic triad is seen in 25% of patients?

Which form of Langerhans cell disease resembles lymphoma, affects children younger than age 3, and has a rapidly fatal course?

The most characteristic skin lesion in SLE is described as

Persons with Behçet syndrome suffer from the following symptoms except one. Which is the exception?

Along with phagocytosis, the macrophage acts to process antigen material and present it on its surface to the T-helper cell. This stimulates both types of lymphocytes to travel from the lymphoid tissue or surrounding blood vessels to the injury site.

The immune response differs from the inflammatory response because it has the capacity for memory and responds more quickly to a foreign substance if encountered again.

Which one is not a characteristic feature of pemphigus vulgaris?

Which condition is not a component of Reiter syndrome?

In which type of immune response do B-lymphocytes and antibodies play the predominant role?

What is the most common precipitating factor in the development of aphthous ulcers?

In which condition is the Langerhans cell not the proliferating cell?

Anaphylaxis occurs as a result of what type of hypersensitivity?

Skin lesions, called target or bull's eye lesions, are characteristic of persons with erythema multiforme. If the oral cavity is also involved, which conditions are typically seen?

The acute disseminated form of Langerhans cell disease is termed

Which ulcer may require a biopsy to make the diagnosis?