Difference between revisions of "Pityriasis rubra pilaris"

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Features:<ref name=pmid24783259>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Marrouche | first1 = N. | last2 = Kurban | first2 = M. | last3 = Kibbi | first3 = AG. | last4 = Abbas | first4 = O. | title = Pityriasis rubra pilaris: clinicopathological study of 32 cases from Lebanon. | journal = Int J Dermatol | volume = 53 | issue = 4 | pages = 434-9 | month = Apr | year = 2014 | doi =  | PMID = 24783259 }}</ref>
Features:<ref name=pmid24783259>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Marrouche | first1 = N. | last2 = Kurban | first2 = M. | last3 = Kibbi | first3 = AG. | last4 = Abbas | first4 = O. | title = Pityriasis rubra pilaris: clinicopathological study of 32 cases from Lebanon. | journal = Int J Dermatol | volume = 53 | issue = 4 | pages = 434-9 | month = Apr | year = 2014 | doi =  | PMID = 24783259 }}</ref>
*Alterating [[orthokeratosis]] and [[parakeratosis]] - known as "checkerboard pattern".
*Alterating [[orthokeratosis]] and [[parakeratosis]] - known as "checkerboard pattern".
*Marked uniform [[acanthosis]] with broad dermal papillae and broad epidermal ridges
*Marked uniform [[acanthosis]] with broad dermal papillae and broad epidermal ridges.
*Follicular plugging.
*Follicular plugging.
*+/-Eosinophils (common).
*+/-Eosinophils (common).
*Scattered foci of [[Acantholysis]].<ref name=pmid23286804/>
*Scattered foci of [[acantholysis]].<ref name=pmid23286804/>
*Occasional mild spongiosis.


DDx:
==Histologic DDx==
*[[Dermatophyosis|Fungal infection]].
*Psoriasis vulgaris.<ref name=pmid18418089>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Brinster | first1 = NK. | title = Dermatopathology for the surgical pathologist: a pattern based approach to the diagnosis of inflammatory skin disorders (part I). | journal = Adv Anat Pathol | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | pages = 76-96 | month = Mar | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1097/PAP.0b013e3181664e8d | PMID = 18418089 }}</ref>
*Psoriasis vulgaris.<ref name=pmid18418089>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Brinster | first1 = NK. | title = Dermatopathology for the surgical pathologist: a pattern based approach to the diagnosis of inflammatory skin disorders (part I). | journal = Adv Anat Pathol | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | pages = 76-96 | month = Mar | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1097/PAP.0b013e3181664e8d | PMID = 18418089 }}</ref>
*Darier disease.
*Darier disease.
*Seborrhoeic dermatitis.
*Seborrhoeic dermatitis.
*[[Dermatophtosis|Fungal infection]].
==Associated Diagnoses==
*HIV infection - recalcitrant PRP


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