PSORIASIFORM, SPONGIOTIC, AND INTERFACE DERMATITIS Flashcards
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IDENTIFY THE PATTERN
Superficial Perivascular Dermatitis (with minimal epidermal change)
IDENTIFY THE PATTERN
Superficial Perivascular Dermatitis (with minimal epidermal change)
Pityriasis Rosea
What are the 9 basic inflammatory patterns
- Superficial perivascular dermatitis
- Superficial and deep perivascular dermatitis
- Nodular and diffuse dermatitis
- Intraepidermal vesicular and pustular dermatitis
- Subepidermal vesicular dermatitis
- Fibrosing dermatitis
- Folliculitis and perifolliculitis
- Vasculitis
- Panniculitis
2 MOST IMPORTANT HISTOLOGIC FEATURES OF PSORIASIS
Munro Microabscesses
Spongiform Pustule of Kogoj
give differentials for psoriasiform dermatitis
*Psoriasis
*Lichen Simplex Chronicus/ Prurigo Nodularis
*Pityriasis Rosea
LICHEN SIMPLEX CHRONICUS/PRURIGO NODULARIS
PITYRIASIS ROSEA
give differentials for spongiotic dermatitis
DIFFERENTIALS: “D’ CAIN”
1)Dyshidrotic eczema
2)Contact Dermatitis
3)A- llergic contact dermatitis/ Atopic Dermatitis
4)I-rritant contact dermatitis
5)N-ummular eczema
give differentials for spongiotic dermatitis
DIFFERENTIALS: “D’ CAIN”
1)Dyshidrotic eczema
2)Contact Dermatitis
3)A- llergic contact dermatitis/ Atopic Dermatitis
4)I-rritant contact dermatitis/ Id reaction
5)N-ummular eczema
Acute/ subacute or chronic?
Acute Spongiosis
✓ Intraepidermal vesicles
✓ Prominent epidermal edema
Acute/ subacute or chronic?
Subacute spongiotic dermatitis
✓ Intraepidermal edema less prominent
✓ Acanthosis
✓ Beginning papillary dermal fibrosis
Acute/ subacute or chronic?
Chronic Spongiotic Dermatitis
- “psoriasiform-like”
- Acanthosis
- Papllary dermal fibrosis
EOSINOPHILIC SPONGIOSIS
give differentials for EOSINOPHILIC SPONGIOSIS
S- CABIES
H -ERPES GESTATIONIS
A - RTHROPOD BITE/ ALLERGIC CONTACT DERMATITIS
P- EMPHIGUS
P- EMPHIGOID
I - NCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI
E - RYTHEMA TOXICUM NEONATORUM
what are the features of vacuolar interface dermatitis
1.BASAL LAYER VACUOLIZATION (Black arrows) *other term: vacuolar interface change
- PIGMENT INCONTINENCE
give differentials for vacuolar interface dermatitis
1.Ashy Dermatosis
2.Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation
3.LATE STAGE fixed drug eruption
VACUOLAR INTERFACE: ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME
FEATURES:
1.BASAL LAYER VACUOLIZATION (Black arrows) other term: vacuolar interface change
- APOPTOTIC KERATINOCYTES (Green arrows)
- Orthokeratosis (acute process)
give differentials for VACUOLAR INTERFACE: ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME
DIFFERENTIALS:
1.Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (beginning)
2.Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
VACUOLAR INTERFACE: STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME /TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS
FEATURES:
1.SUBEPIDERMAL SPLIT
- FULL THICKNESS EPIDERMAL NECROSIS
- Orthokeratosis (acute process)
VACUOLAR INTERFACE: CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
- Basal layer vacuolization (black arrows) with thickening of basement membrane (Green arrows)
FEATURES:
✓ PATTERN: INTERFACE
✓ Basal layer vacuolization
✓ Superficial AND deep perivascular, perieccrine, and periadnexal infiltrates of lymphocytes and plasma cells
What’s the DIF and stain pattern of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
BANDLINKE deposits of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the basement membrane zone
Ddx of Lupus
Dermatomyositis
LICHENOID INTERFACE: LICHEN PLANUS
FEATURES:
✓ PATTERN: LICHENOID – band-like pattern of infiltrates in the papillary dermis
✓ Wedge-shaped hypergranulosis
✓ Saw-tooth appearance of the rete ridges