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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
Large plaque parapsoriasis
Clinical signs
  • a few large (more than 10 cm in diameter), fairly demarcated, iregularly shaped plaques
  • color: reddish
  • pityriasiform scaling
  • location: trunk, extremities
  • poikiloderma atrophicans vasculare: special variant occurs in light protected areas showing reticular network of hyperpigmentation, atrophy and teleangiectasia
  • prognosis: generally good, but later infiltrated plaques may form (mycosis fungoides)
Histology

Epidermis is normal or slightly acanthotic. In poikilodermatous form is epidermis atrophic. Single cell epidermotropism with arrangement of lymphocytes along the basal layer. Spongiosis is usually low or none. Intraepidermal lymphocytes are often larger than those located intradermally.

In upper dermis there is a band like infiltrate of lymphocytes with focal accumulation around papillary vessels. Dilatation of blood vessels. The perivascular infiltrate is sometimes assymetric, being denser close to the epidermis.

Immunophenotype and genetic features:

  • CD4+, CD8-, CD45RO+, bcl2-
  • clonality in about 50% of cases

Large plaque parapsoriasis (2182)