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Case Number : Case 1740 - 27 January - Dr Richard A Carr Posted By: Guest

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Clinical Details: F60. Elbow. Persistent eczematous eruption with vesicles exterior limbs. ?Acute eczema.  ?Drug eruption.  DD: ?Prebullous pemphigoid.

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Admin_Dermpath

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A beautiful set of images for today's Spot Diagnosis Case from Dr Richard A Carr

 

Geoff Cross - DermpathPRO Projects

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Robledo F. Rocha

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Spongiotic dermatitis with Langerhans cell microabscesses.

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vincenzo polizzi

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In spongiotic bullous pemphigoid the dermal infiltrate is usually mixed, lymphocytic and eosinophilic, and a mild dermal fibroplasia and the focal parakeratosis in fig 5 make me think of a not so early eruption...So agree with Robledo ( maybe an allergic contact dermatitis ).

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Raul Perret

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agree spongiotic dermatitis now with nice langerhans cell microabscesses

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Yes well done, definitely spongiotic/eczematous! These are the (wide bottomed) vase or flask shaped Langerhan's cell-rich, pseudo-pautrier's microabscesses that can be a clue to allergic contact dermatitis.

For comparison see case 1730 (now >500 views!):

My apologies for the image quality - I suspect it's my old camera and a poor section but it's my only really spectacular case as our clinicians don't biopsy allergic contact very often. In fact the story was interesting as the patient had a long history of chronic atopic eczema and had been recently self-medicating with a neomycin containing topical steroid that had resulted in an acute flare. Clinical colleagues had concluded most likely this was and allergic reaction to the neomycin. I had raised the possibility of a drug reaction at that time not being so aware of the implications of the Langerhan's cell-rich microabscesses.

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