Skip areas of retained melanin: A clue to the histopathological diagnosis of idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis

• मुख्य लेखक: Rajiv Joshi (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Biopsy findings in 55 cases of idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis (IGH) are reported. Most cases had a flat epidermis with loss of the rete pattern and a thickened orthokeratotic basket weave stratum corneum. The epidermis had markedly decreased to absent melanin in the basal layer and reduced numbers...