acute allergic contact dermatitis
Histologic Features
- A basket-weave horn
- Prominent spongiosis of the epidermis with lymphocytic exocytosis
- Intraepidermal spongiotic vesicles containing many lymphocytes and a few neutrophils
- Edema of papillary dermis
- A superficial perivascular lymphohistiocytic infiltrate containing a few eosinophils
- Extravasated erythrocytes
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