B17. Secondary skin lesions, basics of dermatohistopathology
- Scales
- Detaching fragments of a thickened stratum corneum
- Dry and usually whitish
- Erosion
- Loss of epidermis
- Heal without scarring
- Excoriation
- Loss of papillary dermis
- Heals with scarring
- Fissure
- Painful, deep, linear opening of skin through the epidermis and into the dermis
- Rhagades
- Cracks or tears in the skin caused by stretching of brittle skin
- Ulcer
- Skin defect with loss of epidermis and upper papillary dermis
- Usually leave scars
- Crust
- Dried secretion
- Red-brown crust – blood
- Yellow crust – serum
- Honey-coloured crust – purulent streptococcus exudate
- Yellow-green crust – purulent staphylococcus exudate
- Scar
- Permanent fibrous lesions
- A result of the repair process
- Hypertrophic scar = keloid scar
- Atrophic scar
- Atrophy
- Thinning of epidermis and dermis
- Lichenification
- Increased thickness of epidermis
- Cobblestone-like surface
- A result of chronic rubbing or scratching