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Case Number : Case 2674 - 06 October 2020 Posted By: Uma Sundram

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25 year old female with full body rash and perioral lesions.


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Richard Logan

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A sub-epidermal blistering disorder which in these slides is centred around a hair follicle.  There is a vacuolar interface dermatitis, apoptotic cells at all levels of the epidermis and a certain amount of pigmentary incontinence.  I think the diagnosis rests between erythema multiforme major (Stevens-Johnson syndrome) or acute graft versus host disease.  Clinico-pathological correlation needed.

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Saman Fatah

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Florid vacuolar interface dermatitis with pan-epidermal apoptosis and basket wave stratum corneum. 
Beside the above listed common causes of this pattern of reaction, I would add one more but uncommon possibility as she is a young female, TEN-like presentation of lupus erythematous. 
If full body rash meant epidermal detachment then it means >30% BSA involvement which pushes the clinical diagnosis to TEN end of the spectrum. 

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Anil Patki

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Full thickness epidermal necrosis and dermal silence point towards toxic epidermal necrolysis.

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Uma Sundram

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SJS-TEN. Patient was recently on sulfoamides. Has targetoid lesions as well w rapid onset of desquamative rash.

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