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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
Organoid nevi and malformations of the skin
Introduction

Tissue nevi and malformations, affecting skin and adnexa. Other malformation (eg. malformaltions of the blood vessels) are mentioned elsewhere.

Clinical signs
  • inborn lesions, solitary or in linear or segmental arrangement
  • epidermal nevi: brownish verrucosities, linearly arranged
  • nevus sebaceus: yellowish, soft lesion, often in the scalp
  • connective tissue nevi: wrinkled, skin colored or yellowish lesions
Histology

Epidermal nevus papillary lesion with hyperkeratosis, almost without parakeratosis, inflammatory changes are minimal or none.

Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN) is characterized by psoriatiform acanthosis, focal columnar parakeratosis and inflammation (lymphocytes within the epidermis).

Sebaceous nevus is more complex: papillomatosis, hyperplasia of sebaceous glands (develops at puberty, not prominent in children), malformed sweat glands are often present.