Practical Dermatopathology

The diseases in this chapter have dominant epidermal changes (clinical scaling, pathologic changes of spongiosis and parakeratosis), as opposed to rashes in 3, 4 , which primarily have dermal changes. It has been said by Levine that the diseases in…

The differential diagnostic lists that follow in this chapter serve as a starting point for evaluation of an unknown skin biopsy. Such lists have some advantages over algorithms because they provide multiple pathways for getting back on track toward the…