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Lupus

LEGEND

  • Dense periadnexal lymphocytic infiltrates (around hair follicles and glands)

  • Follicular plugging, characterized by a keratin plug

Lupus

LEGEND

Epidermal atrophy

  • Dense periannexal lymphocytic infiltrates

  • Follicular plugging

Lupus

LEGEND

  • Follicular plugging

Lupus

LEGEND

  • Dense periannexal lymphocytic infiltrates (around hair follicles and eccrine glands)

Lupus

Periannexal lymphocytic infiltrates (around hair follicles and eccrine glands)

Lupus

Vacuolar interface dermatitis centered on a hair follicle (lymphocytes nibbling at the hair follicle)

Lupus

Liquefying vacuolar interface dermatitis

Lupus

LEGEND

  • Thickening of the epidermal basement membrane suggesting chronic liquefactive vacuolar interface dermatitis

Lupus

LEGEND

  • Follicular plugging

Lupus

LEGEND

  • Presence of mucin in the dermis

Lupus

LEGEND

  • Mucin visible by its loose, grayish, interstitial reticular pattern

Lupus

Marked inflammation causing extravasation of erythrocytes into the dermis