Pityriasis Lichenoides with Necrotic Lesions (Habermann)

Pityriasis Lichenoides Et Varioliformis Acuta (Mucha-Habermann Disease)

[Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (Mucha-Habermann disease)].

Patients with the skin disorder pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (PLEVA) develop recurrent, self-healing papulonecrotic lesions that contain infiltrates of cytologically and antigenically normal T lymphocytes. DNA extracted from the lesions of 3 patients with PLEVA was analyzed for rearrangement of beta-T-cell receptor genes for the purpose of assessing the clonality of T lymphocyt...

Pityriasis lichenoides chronica with acral distribution mimicking palmoplantar syphilid.

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Pityriasis lichenoides chronica presenting with bilateral palmoplantar involvement.

Pityriasis lichenoides is an uncommon, acquired, idiopathic, self-limiting skin disease that poses a challenge to patients and clinicians to diagnose and treat. Several variants exist including pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (PLEVA), pityriasis lichenoides chronica (PLC), and febrile ulcer-onecrotic Mucha-Habermann disease. Precise classification can be difficult due to an overla...

Pityriasis Lichenoides Chronica Associated with Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2

Introduction. Pityriasis lichenoides is a rare, acquired spectrum of skin conditions of an unknown etiology. Case Report. A 28-year-old man presented with recurrent outbreaks of herpes simplex virus associated with the onset of red-to-brown maculopapules located predominantly in trunk in each recurrence. Positive serologies to herpes simplex virus type 2 were detected. Histopathological examina...