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Ch. 8 - Psoriasiform and spongiotic dermatitis Flashcards

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Psoriasis

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Alternating neutrophils and parakeratosis in stratum corneum (sandwich sign), neutrophilic spongiform pustules, tortuous blood vessels in dermal papillae.

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What lesions can present with collections of neutrophils within the stratum corneum?

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Psoriasis

Tinea

Impetigo

Candida

Seborrheic dermatitis

Syphilis

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Plaque psoriasis

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Sandwich sign, neutrophilic spongiform pustules, regular bulbous acanthosis and thin superpapillary plates.

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Pustular psoriasis

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Neutrophils in the stratum corneum with subcorneal and spongiform pustules.

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Guttate psoriasis

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Neutrophils on top of parakeratosis. No acanthosis.

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ILVEN

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Alternating orthokeratosis (with granular layer) and parakeratosis (without underlying granular layer)

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Mycosis fungoides

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Epidermal collection of hyperchromatic lymphocytes surrounded by white space. Spongiosis and papillary dermal fibrosis.

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Syphilis

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Vacuolar interface dermatitis with elongated psoriasiform acanthosis. Neutrophils in stratum corneum. Perivascular lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. Endothelial swelling.

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What cutaneous lesions are associated with plasma cells?

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Kaposi’s sarcoma

Syphilis

Leishmaniasis

Rhinoscleroma

Melanoma

Squamous cell carcinoma

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Nutritional-deficiency dermatitis

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Pallor and ballooning of upper epidermis. Consider glucagonoma, pellagra, acrodermatitis enteropathica.

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Granular parakeratosis

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Compact hyperkeratosis with parakeratosis and preserved granular layer.

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Porokeratosis

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Cornoid lamellae with intervening lichenoid or psoriasiform zones

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Acute spongiotic dermatitis

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Spongiosis, exocytosis of lymphocytes

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Seborrheic dermatitis

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Psoriasiform spongiotic dermatitis with neutrophilic scale/crust at edges of follicular ostium

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Subacute spongiotic dermatitis

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Parakeratosis, acanthosis, spongiosis, and exocytosis of lymphocytes

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What are some common causes of spongiotic dermatitis?

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Allergic contact dermatitis (eczema)

Dyshidrotic dermatitis

Nummular dermatitis

Stasis dermatitis

Pityriasis rosea

Tinea

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Chronic dermatitis (lichen simplex chronicus)

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Compact stratum corneum with irregular acanthosis, papillary dermofibrosis, and focal epidermal necrosis (from excoriation)

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Pityriasis rosea

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Subacute spongiotic dermatitis with erythrocyte extravasation and transepidermal elimination of erythrocytes

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Spongiotic pigmented purpuric eruption (PPE)

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Spongiosis with purely lymphoid perivascular inflammation and erythrocyte extravasation.

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Stasis dermatitis

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Subacute spongiotic dermatitis with cannonball-like angioplasia in the superficial dermis. Hemosiderin?

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What can cause spongiotic dermatitis with intraepidermal eosinophils?

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Herpes gestationis

Arthropod bite

Allergic contact dermatitis

Pephigus

Pemphigoid

Incontinentia pigmenti

Erythema toxicum

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Zoon’s balanitis

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Spongiosis with flattened, diamond-shaped keratinocytes and dermal plasma cells.

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Pityriasis rubra pilarris

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Acanthosis with thick superpapillary plates and parakeratosis adjacent to follicles.

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Plaque psoriasis

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Pustular psoriasis

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Guttate psoriasis

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Psoriasiform mycosis fungoides

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Deficiency dermatitis

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Granular parakeratosis

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Porokeratosis

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Pityriasis rosea

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Pigmented purpuric eruption

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Acute spongiform dermatitis

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Subacute spongiotic dermatitis

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Lichen simplex chronicus

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Stasis dermatitis

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Pemphigoid

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Zoon’s balanitis

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Pityriasis rubra pilaris

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