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Image Number 7 (Plant contact dermatitis)

 
Diagnosis
: Plant contact dermatitis

Description: Some edema is intraepidermal as well

Clinical Features: Blisters

Pathology Features: Edema of the dermis

Sex: F

Age: 45

Submitted by: Ian McColl

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Differential Diagnosis


History:

This was a biopsy from a blister on a patient's leg.She was highly allergic to mango sap.Dermal contact dermatitis can also be seen in a photoallergic contact and from neomycin.This degree of edema is unusual.There is stretching and tethering of the overlying epidermis with a marked dermal eosinophilic infiltrate.

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