hand-foot-mouth disease
Histologic Features
- Orthokeratosis of the volar skin
- Severe ballooning degeneration of keratinocytes resulting in intraepidermal vesicles
- Scattered dyskeratotic epidermal cells
- Lymphocytes and neutrophils within the blister space
- Edema of the papillary dermis
- A lymphohistiocytic infiltrate around the superficial vessels
Updated Wednesday, July 31, 2013 8:30:48 PM