If the distributional derivative of a distribution is a funcion, is the original distribution a function too?

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Let $\Omega$ be an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and consider a distribution $\Phi\in\mathcal{D}'(\Omega)$. Assuming the derivatives (in all directions) of $\Phi$ are locally integrable functions on $\Omega$, is $\Phi$ necessarily a locally integrable function, too?

When $n=1$, one can easily show that this is true since one can integrate the derivative of $\Phi$ to obtain an (locally) absolutely continuous function, which must be $\Phi$ up to constant. What happens when $n>1$? Can we characterize such $\Phi$s in a nice way, perhaps as a dual space of some other elementary spaces?