Darier's disease (keratosis follicularis)
Histologic Features
- A thick column of parakeratosis containing dyskeratotic cells ( "grains")
- Hypergranulosis
- Cleft formation mostly suprabasally in location
- Many acantholytic dyskeratotic cells within the clefts ("corps-ronds")
- Involvement of the infundibulum
- A sparse superficial perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate containing a few neutrophils and eosinophils
Updated Wednesday, July 31, 2013 8:30:48 PM