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Inflammatory Dermatoses –Think Like a Clinician
Dirk M. Elston, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston
Think like a Clinician
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• “If it scales scrape it.” = “If it scales and you don’t know what it is, PAS it.”
Think like a Clinician
• Try to picture the clinical lesion based on the histologic findings
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Normal baketweave corneum = acute process
Compact corneum = chronic process
What is the timing of this lesion?
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Upper corneum normal, lower compact = 1 - 2 weeks duration
What is the timing of this lesion?
Alternating basketweave and compact parakeratotic corneum = intermittent
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Thick irregular corneum and acanthosis/papillomatosis =
verrucous lesion
Parakeratosis = scale
Exception: Furfuraceous scale
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Spongiosis = eczema
Spongiosis = eczema
Spongiotic conditions usually = pink in white skin,
hypopigmented in dark skin
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Vacuolar interface = pink
Lichenoid interface usually = violaceous
Interface + melanoderma = marked hyperpigmentation or
mottled hyper/hypopigmentation
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Serum = crusting
PEH = epithelial hyperplasia clinically
Papillary dermal fibrosis = chronicity
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Watch out for clinical names
• Names are often “misnomers”– Mycosis fungoides
– Granuloma faciale
– Eosinophilic fasciitis
A Lymph in Every Hole
• MF
• PLEVA
• PLC
• BLK
• MF-like histology in BLK
• Fixed drug
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PLCEach lesion is acute
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PLEVAPLEVA
PLEVA
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What is the timing this lesion?
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SCLE
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Lymphs in the Eccrine Coil
• Lupus
• Lymphoma
• Lichen Striatus
Lymphs in the Eccrine Coil
• PMLE
• Unilateral laterothoracic exanthem
• Jessner's
• GVHD
• Pernio
• Arthropod reaction
• Lymphocytic eccrine hidradenitis
• Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
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Dermatomyositis:Looks like LEMay be atrophic or lichenoid
DM vs. LE
• Pruritus
• Knuckles (vs. interphalangeal)
• Heliotrope
• Shawl
• Extensors
• Nail folds: dilatation and dropout (vs. glomeruloid loops)
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Perniosis, Acute PMLE
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Syphilis
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Take-Home Points
• Specimens with ≤5 features more likely to– be from the trunk (61.1% of cases with ≤5
features vs 34.4% overall)
– demonstrate rete ridge effacement (44.8% vs 19.8%)
– have pityriasis rosea (33.3% vs 17.2%) or drug eruption (33.3% vs 10.9%) in the clinical differential
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Take-Home Points
• An interstitial inflammatory pattern was the most common characteristic of specimens with ≤5 features (present in 75.9%).
• Cases with only two diagnostic features demonstrated an interstitial pattern with either endothelial swelling or lymphocytes with ample cytoplasm.
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Fixed drug eruption
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GVHD
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Nodular and Diffuse Dermatoses
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Sweet’s syndrome
Massive papillary dermal edemaNodular and diffuse neutrophilic infiltrateKarryorrhexis
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Sandfly
Leishmaniasis
Nodular and diffuse infiltrate of histiocytesand plasma cells
Intracellulare organismsPeriphery of vacuole
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Leprosy
Hansen’s disease
Hansen’s diseasePerivascular and periadnexal histiocyte,granulomas, globi
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Granuloma annulare
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Granuloma annulare
Palisaded or patchy interstitialhistiocytic infiltratewith mucin
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Necrobiosis lipoidica
Necrobiosis lipoidica
Layered granulomaswith pale devitalized collagen
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Rheumatoid nodule:Palisaded granuloma with fibrin
DDX: “Deep” GA
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Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis
Nodular non-caseating “naked” granulomas
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Xanthogranulomas
JuvenileAdultNecrobiotic
Xanthogranulomas
JuvenileAdult
Nodular and diffuse histiocytesEpithelioidLanghansTouton
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Xanthogranulomas
Necrobiotic
NodulesXanthogranulomaDevitalized collagenCholesterol cleftsParaproteinemia
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Reticulohistiocytic granuloma
Ground glass two tone cytoplasmRetraction space
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Xanthomas
XanthomasFoamy histiocytesFibrosis -- tuberousExtracellular lipid -- eruptive
Eruptive xanthomas:Diabetes, hypothyroidism
Apoprotein C-II:Type I and some Type V
Apoprotein E-II:Type III
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Tuberous xanthomas
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Tendon Xanthomas
Palmar Crease Xanthomas (Type III)Apoprotein E2
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Normolipemic planar xanthoma:Association with paraproteinemia and myeloma
Rosacea and acne agminata
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Courtesy Larry Gibson, MD
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Rosacea• Patchy perifollicular lymphohistiocytic
• Ectasia
• Fibrosis
Lupus erythematosus
Lupus erythematosusVacuolar or lichenoidinterface dermatitis
Patchy perivascular and periadnexal lymphoid infiltrate
Nodular SQ infiltrate
Lymphoid aggregates in eccrine coil
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Lupus erythematosus
Compact hyperkeratosis
Follicular plugging
BMZ thickening
Dermal mucin
Acute Cutaneous Lupus
• Malar
• Pink
• Non-scarring
• ds-DNA
• Penicillamine
Subacute Cutaneous Lupus
• Trunk, face, extremities
• Pink
• Annular or psoriasiform
• Ro (SSA), La (SSB)
• Neonatal LE
• Thiazide diuretics
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Acral Lupus
• Lichenoid clinically
• Lichenoid histology
• Linear immunoglobulin
• SCC in longstanding lesions
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Morphea:Nodular lymphoid infiltratesPeriadnexal, SQ
Hyalinized collagen
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Lupus destroys elastic fibers
Morphea preserves elastic fibers
Pseduomonas sepsis:Nodular gray aggregatesSurround infarcts
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Cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitisNeutrophilic infiltrate
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Bites/stings
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Mastocytosis
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Pigmenting purpura
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Spongiotic with RBCs in epidermis:Pityriasis roseaPigmenting purpura (Dukas)
Interface with RBCs in epidermisPityriasis lichenoidesPigmenting purpura (Gougerot-Blum)