Follicular Psoriasis - A Forgotten Entity?~!2010-04-15~!2010-07-06~!2010-08-06~!

Follicular Psoriasis - A Forgotten Entity?

Follicular psoriasis is a common yet under reported entity. Major dermatology textbooks fail to emphasise and even neglect this important diagnosis and since its original description in 1920 there have been only three reports in the published literature. As a result the diagnosis is seldom entertained by dermatology trainees in the differential diagnosis of a folliculocentric skin disease. We p...

Follicular psoriasis.

Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory papulosquamous dermatosis of unknown etiology. The prototype – psoriasis vulgaris – is characterized by erythematous, scaly plaques, typically occurring on the extensor surfaces including the scalp. Other clinical subtypes such as guttate, pustular, erythrodermic, verrucous, inverse, and palmoplantar psoriasis are also well recognized.1 In contrast, fo...

Abelson 06/08

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Draft (04/07/2003)

Spp 07-06

The section shows a third trimester placenta with a patchy chronic villitis (CV) with a mixed lymphocytic and histiocytic infiltrate and, in some sections, giant cells. No organisms were identified using Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2, and Toxoplasma immunostains, a Steiner stain for spirochetes, and an acid fast stain. The etiology of CV includes viral infectio...