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[The immune system of the skin and stereotyped reaction patterns in inflammatory skin diseases].

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd

April 2006

VU Medisch Centrum, afd. Pathologie, Postbus 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam.

The clinical and histological presentation of inflammatory disease in the skin is exceedingly heterogeneous. Nonetheless, most inflammatory dermatoses can be classified according to five stereotypical tissue-reaction patterns: the spongiotic, the lichenoid, the psoriasiform, the vesiculo-bullous and the vasculopathic. By means of potent antigen-presenting cells, cytokine and chemokine cascades and a skin-specific cutaneous lymphocyte antigen (CLA)-positive lymphocyte population, the skin is able to respond very efficiently to pathogens that threaten the individual.

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[Contact vasculitis caused by topical agents with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents or analgesics].

Ann Dermatol Venereol

September 1998

Clinique Dermatologique, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, Rouen.

Introduction: Topical non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAID) are recently used in France. Seven cases of contact vasculitis due to topical NSAID are reported.

Patients And Methods: The clinical and histological features and follow-up data of seven patients with contact vasculitis due to topical NSAID were retrospectively reviewed.

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