erythema multiforme
Histologic Features
- A basket-weave cornified layer
- Many individual necrotic keratinocytes and confluent epidermal necrosis centrally
- Lymphocytic exocytosis
- Vacuolar alterations of the basal cells at the dermo-epidermal interface
- Edema of the papillary dermis
- A moderately dense superficial perivascular lymphohistiocytic infiltrate
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