Difference between revisions of "Talk:Non-malignant skin disease"
(create) |
(→Pilomatrixoma: new section) |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
====Comment==== | ====Comment==== | ||
The sections show a mild, superficial dermal perivascular lymphoeosinophilic infiltration. Rare eosinophils are seen in the dermis distant from blood vessels. The epidermis shows normal maturation and is not inflammed. | The sections show a mild, superficial dermal perivascular lymphoeosinophilic infiltration. Rare eosinophils are seen in the dermis distant from blood vessels. The epidermis shows normal maturation and is not inflammed. | ||
== Pilomatrixoma == | |||
===Microscopic description=== | |||
The sections show a fibrous encapsulated lesion with nests of benign basaloid squamous cells, occasional squamous pearls, multi-nucleated foreign body-type giant cells, and abundant anucleated squamous cells ("ghost cells"). Focal, punctate calcifications are present. Small collections of lymphocytes are present. There is no evidence of dysplasia. | |||
===Final diagnosis=== | |||
Neck mass, left, excision - Pilomatrixoma | |||
Revision as of 21:26, 22 March 2011
Urticaria
Microscopic description
The sections show a mild, superficial dermal perivascular lymphoeosinophilic infiltration. Rare eosinophils are seen in the dermis distant from blood vessels. The epidermis shows normal maturation and is not inflamed. No dysplastic changes are present.
Final diagnosis
A. Skin, posterior left thigh, biopsy - dermal perivascular lymphoeosinophilic infiltration, see comment.
Comment
The sections show a mild, superficial dermal perivascular lymphoeosinophilic infiltration. Rare eosinophils are seen in the dermis distant from blood vessels. The epidermis shows normal maturation and is not inflammed.
Pilomatrixoma
Microscopic description
The sections show a fibrous encapsulated lesion with nests of benign basaloid squamous cells, occasional squamous pearls, multi-nucleated foreign body-type giant cells, and abundant anucleated squamous cells ("ghost cells"). Focal, punctate calcifications are present. Small collections of lymphocytes are present. There is no evidence of dysplasia.
Final diagnosis
Neck mass, left, excision - Pilomatrixoma