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Nonneoplastic Skin Diseases

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Abstract

Inflammatory dermatopathology is based on a pattern approach. The reaction pattern defines the diagnostic categories utilized in the evaluation of a given skin biopsy. Once a reaction pattern is assigned, different histologic features can allow the pathologist to assign a specific diagnosis depending on the clinical presentation. This chapter discusses the basic reaction patterns commonly encountered in dermatopathology practice.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Steven D. Billings MD

  2. Department of Dermatology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Antoinette F. Hood MD

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Billings, S.D., Hood, A.F. (2016). Nonneoplastic Skin Diseases. In: Cheng, L., Bostwick, D. (eds) Essentials of Anatomic Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23380-2_19

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