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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
Lichen striatus
Etiology, pathogenesis
  • not known
Clinical signs
  • relatively rare disease
  • affects children and young adults
  • predilection sites: the extremities, asymetrically
  • small erythematous, scaly papules in linear arrangement
  • pruritus occasionally
  • healing in weeks up to one year
Histology

Lymphohistiocytic infiltration superficially, sometimes deeper. Exocytosis, parakeratosis, focal spongiosis. Variable acanthosis, often mild, sometimes none. Infiltrate is lichenoid, sometimes with multinuclear histiocytes. Necrotic keratinocytes single or in groups within epideris.