Bruton disease
Bruton disease or Bruton agammaglobulinemia is a hereditary type of agammaglobulinemia that is a sex-linked recessive disorder characterized by a deficiency of all types of immunoglobulins, reflecting a failure of the entire humoral antibody marrow system; the thymus may be normal, but the lymph nodes and spleen lack lymph cell follicles.
Differential diagnosis
- Acrodermatitis enteropathica
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Atopic dermatitis
- Avitaminosis A
- Common Variable Immunodeficiency
- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
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