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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
Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) and hepatopathies (immunofluorescence)
Introduction

Skin from sun exposed areas will show characteristic changes: lupus band in dermo-epidermal junction and dilatation of blood vessels with homogenous deposits, positive for IgG and fibrin. Such changes can be found in some other diseases: systemic lupus erythematodes, hepatopathy, severe diabetes. Most common is vascular positivity for fibrin and IgG. Sweat glands are positive as well in such cases.

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Porphyria cutanea tarda, fibrin deposits in vascular walls: PCT, blood vessels, FITC (24)

Porphyria cutanea tarda, fibrin deposits in vascular walls and sweat glands: PCT, blood vessels and sweat glands, FITC (25)