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Atlas of dermatopathology
Josef Feit, Hana Jedličková, Günter Burg, Luděk Matyska, Spasoje Radovanovic et al.
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+ Introduction
+ Literature
+ Support
+ Skin biopsy
+ Non-tumorous skin diseases
+ Skin tumors
+ Cysts of the skin and subcutis
+ Soft tissue lesions
+ Some lesions of the oral cavity
+ Dermatovenerology
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Günter Burg
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Werner Kempf
+ Collection of histological slides of dr. Ram Chandra Adhikari
Artifical clefts in basaliomas
Introduction

We mention here this fixation artefact for diferential diagnostic reasons. These clefts never contain any cells and are found near (often malignant) skin tumors, especially superficial basaliomas.

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Artifical clefts, no bazalioma is present in this section: Subepidermal clefts near basalioma, HE 40x (3642)

The same case, another cutting plane, superficial basalioma is present: Subepidermal clefts near basalioma, HE 40x (3643)