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Residents’ corner December 2014. DeRmpath & Clinic : The histopathological features of a rare perforating disorder Volume 24, numéro 6, November-December 2014

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Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Lausanne University hospital, CH-1011 Lausanne

In this edition of DeRmpath & Clinic we present the case of a 88 year old patient with chronic renal failure, who presented with numerous erythematous pruritic nodules and papules with a central crust, localised predominately on his abdomen (figure 1). No new medications had recently been introduced.Figure 2 shows the histopathological features of one of the lesions showing:–Cup-shaped ulceration in the epidermis filled with collagen, necrotic tissue and inflammatory infiltrate;–Accumulation [...]