Chapter: Medicine Study Notes : Skin

Eczema

Formal definition: pattern of inflammatory response of the skin which can be defined histologically by the presence of a predominantly lymphohistiocytic infiltrate around the upper dermal blood vessels, associated with spongiosis (= oedema between keratinocytes) and varying degrees of acanthosis.

Eczema

· = Dermatitis

· Formal definition: pattern of inflammatory response of the skin which can be defined histologically by the presence of a predominantly lymphohistiocytic infiltrate around the upper dermal blood vessels, associated with spongiosis (= oedema between keratinocytes) and varying degrees of acanthosis.

· Clinical features include itching, redness, weeping, scaling and clustered papulovesicles

· Endogenous forms:

o Atopic

o Seborrheic

o Discoid

o Juvenile plantar dermatosis

o Pompholyx

o Pityriasis Alba

· Exogenous forms:

o Asteatotic

o Irritant contact dermatitis

o Allergic contact dermatitis

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