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Case Number : Case 1359 - 08 September Posted By: Guest

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63 year old male with 4 blisters that show up at the same spot 1-2 times a year. Itchy. No changes in medications. Biopsy of left temple.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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The pathological picture including necrotic KCs along DEJ as well as through all epidermal levels (up to complete necrosis), together with a mixed lymphohistiocytic infiltrate with few esinophils and neutrophils and few melanophages in addition to the deep extension of the infiltrate together with the clinical description of recurring blisters in sun exposed sites once or twice a year with no change in medications make me favour a form of phototoxic reaction. Detailed history can help. May be he is exposed to some plant materials on seasonal backgrounds (once or twice a year!!!!)... May be !!!
A bullous fixed drug reaction can mimic this pathologically, but would have expected more melanophages as pigmentation starts to develop early in these lesions, and with no changes in medications and with the pattern described for the recurrence once or twice yearly, I think this is not the case.

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Arti Bakshi

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Good possibility, Mona.
There are certainly necrotic keratinocytes all throughout, but most prominent at the DE junction. This suggests a predominant interface/lichenoid tissue reaction pattern. This is also seen around hair follicular epithelium. Would be unusual to get such an interface pattern with phototoxic dermatitis, but possible!
What about a recurrent erythema multiforme (possibly to herpes), although inflammation is quite deep.
Or a lichenoid contact dermatitis to something else??

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Guest Romualdo

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I don't know how to explain the presence of necrotic keratinocytes but I see upper dermal scarring and, most inportantly, sebaceous lobules apparently "floating" in a subepidermal blister, a typical finding of cicatricial pemphigoid.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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I like the idea of an erythema multiforme-like fixed drug eruption. There are some case reports.

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Uma Sundram

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Difficult case but this is indeed an example of erythema multiforme like fixed drug eruption. Patient has a known defined reaction to acetaminophen. DIF is negative and the reaction is very localized. No known photo-related activity or known contactants.

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