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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
Elastosis perforans serpiginosa
Clinical signs
  • rare disease
  • types:
    • primary (cause unknown)
    • secondary (Ehlers Danlos, Marfan, Down syndromes and other)
    • drug induced
  • age: any (often young persons, sometimes children)
  • papules, sometimes serpiginous; red; size: several milimeters, up to several centimeters
  • papules have central depression, sometimes foreign material may get extruded
Histology

Accumulation of fragmented elastotic material within the papillary corium; transcutaneous elimination of elastotic fibres.