Pathology
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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
Poikiloderma vasculare atrophicans
Clinical signs
  • areas of hyper- or hypopigmented skin areas
  • dilatations of superficial blood vessels
  • types:
    • idiopathic
    • secondary (lupus erythematosus, lymphomas, irradiation, cold, genodermatoses)
  • distribution:
    • local
    • generalized
Histology

Dilatated superficial blood vessels, skin atrophy, sometimes pigment incontinence. Variabilní zánětlivý lymfocytární infiltrát.

In secondary type in addition the signs of the primary disease (e.g. lymphoma) are present.

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