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
Trichotillomania
Clinical signs
  • habitual plucking of hairs
  • often in psychically altered people
  • alopetic areas
Histology

Increased number of catagen hairs, dilated, keratin filled infundibula which may contain melanin, release of melanin pigment within the papilla, clefts around the follicular epithelium, focal perifollicular hemorrhage.

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