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Premalignant lesions Extramammary Paget’s disease (intraepidermal adenocarcinoma) This occurs in ...

Premalignant lesions Extramammary Paget’s disease (intraepidermal adenocarcinoma) This occurs in ...

Purpura fulminans This is a relatively rare condition in which intravascular throm - bosis produc...

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES Radiation damage UVR and ionising radiation ...

Pilomatrixoma (calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe) These are benign hair matrix cell tumours that...

Premalignant lesions Extramammary Paget’s disease (intraepidermal adenocarcinoma) This occurs in ...

Learning objectives To understand: The structure and functional properties of skin • The classi /...

Necrotising fasciitis Meleney’s synergistic gangrene and Fournier’s gangrene are variants of a s...

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES Radiation damage UVR and ionising radiation ...

Hair follicles Trichoepithelioma These are small skin-coloured nodules found most often in the na...

Infections Skin and soft-tissue infections can be localised or spreading, necrotising or non-necr...

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FURTHER READING Calonje JE, Brenn T , Lazar A, Billings S. McKee’s pathology of the skin , 5th ed...

Giant congenital pigmented naevus or giant hairy naevus This hamartoma of naevo-melanocytes cause...

Giant congenital pigmented naevus or giant hairy naevus This hamartoma of naevo-melanocytes cause...

Epidermis The epidermis constitutes 5% of the skin and is composed of five layers of keratinised...

FUNCTION OF THE SKIN Skin and subcutaneous tissue have several important functions: /uni25CF Barr...

FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF SKIN Skin can be divided into two layers: the outer epidermi...

Cylindroma (turban tumour) A variant of eccrine spiradenoma that coalesce when multiple on the s...

Dermis The dermis constitutes 95% of the skin and is structurally divided into a superficial papi...