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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
Fox-Fordyce syndrome
Clinical signs
  • tiny papules
  • location: axilla (and rarely around nipples, mons veneris)
  • affects women after puberty
  • severe episodic pruritus
Histology

Not characteristic; follicular plugging, sometimes chronic inflammation, dilatation of apocrine sweat glands, erosions (pruritus). Inflammation of sweat glands in acute cases.

Chromhidrosis: pigment within epithelial cells of sweat glands.

Pictures

Fox-Fordyce disease, apocrine glands: Apocrine miliaria Fox Fordyce, HE 40x (12882)

Apocrine miliaria with chromhidrosis: Apocrine miliaria Fox Fordyce with chromhidrosis, HE 20x (4260)