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Molluscum contagiosum: multiple mollusca contagiosa in the face of an Ethiopian boy.

Molluscum contagiosum: extensive findings in cases of known immunodeficiency.

Molluscum contagiosum: extensive findings in known HIV infection.

Molluscum contagiosum: regressing papule at the lower lid margin; note: in this case a conservative therapy is recommended.

Molluscum contagiosum: extensive findings in known HIV infection.

Molluscum contagiosum: extensive infestation of the face with known HIV infection.

Small papular type of Mullusca contagiosa: focal sowing of small papular skin-coloured, smooth efflorescences reminiscent of verrucae planae juveniles; isomorphic irritant effect detectable.

Molluscum contagiosa: multiple, 0.2-0.3 cm large, yellow-reddish, firm, shiny, completely asymptomatic nodules with characteristic central umbilical cord; appearing after first school swimming.

Molluscum contagiosa: multiple, 0.2-0.3 cm large, yellow-reddish, firm, shiny, completely asymptomatic nodules with characteristic central umbilicus; Inlet: 2 aggregated mollusca with central umbilicus

Molluscum contagiosum:typical central navel of the papules.

Molluscum contagiosa: colourful picture with multiple, 0.2-0.3 cm large, yellowish, firm, shiny, sometimes itchy nodules, sometimes small scars and crusty papules (spontaneously healed molluscs).

Molluscum contagiosa: colourful picture with multiple, 0.2-0.3 cm large, yellowish, firm, shiny, sometimes itchy nodules; furthermore small scars and crusty, reddened papules (molluscs in spontaneous healing).

Molluscum contagiosa: Molluscs in different stages of development; small, shiny, freshly formed papules; molluscs that are still fully developed and encrusted molluscs in regression.

Molluscum contagiosum: disseminated mollusca contagiosa in an immunocompetent patient, known allergic diathesis.



Molluscum contagiosum: General view: Strongly itchy suberythrodermia with infestation of the entire anterior trunk, the back and the arms and legs of a 65-year-old woman with psoriasis vulgaris persisting since childhood; submammary and in the xiphoid region reddish, shiny, partly glassy appearing papules of 0.5-0.7 cm size.

Molluscum contagiosum: Detailed enlargement: disseminated, 0.1-0.7 cm in size, firm, coarse, waxy, broadly seated, smooth, red papules, which are centrally dented on closer examination; sometimes itching; psoriatic suberythroderma.

Molluscum contagiosa: multiple, 0.2-0.3 cm large, yellowish, firm, shiny, completely asymptomatic nodules with characteristic central umbilicus.

Molluscum contagiosum: multiple Mollusca contagiosa, here grouped, indicated linearly arranged, detailed view.

Molluscum contagiosum: multiple molluscs in atopic diathesis.

Molluscum contagiosum: disseminated mollusca contagiosa in an immunocompetent patient, known allergic diathesis.

Molluscum contagiosum: disseminated mollusca contagiosa; first appearance a few weeks after children swim in a heated pool.

Molluscum contagiosum: clinical symptoms known for months with mostly aggregated red, shiny papules up to 0.3 cm in size with typical umbilical cord of their surface; known HIV infection.

Molluscum contagiosum: spontaneous healing with residual crust formation


Molluscum contagiosum. detail enlargement: molluscum corpuscles arranged in a street pattern, which start in the suprabasal keratinocytes and increase in colour intensity and size towards the surface. in the lumen brownish cell detritus. the dermis is sparsely infiltrated with round cells.

Molluscum contagiosum: molluscum corpuscles arranged in a street pattern, which start in the suprabasal keratinocytes, increase in colour intensity and size towards the surface, and become brownish in the lumen.


