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Folliculitis superficial: slightly painful follicular (staphylogenic) pyoderma with yellowish central necrosis and severe perifollicular erythema.

Folliculitis superficial: slightly painful, follicular (staphylogenic) pyoderma with central necrosis and severe perifollicular erythema.

Ostiofolliculitis: Recurrent folliculitis in androgenetic alopecia (not relevant here)


Ostiofolliculitis. Multiple follicular pustules. Evidence of Staph. aureus.


Ostiofolliculitis. reflected light microscopy: neck area of a 46-year-old woman. Non-confluent, follicle-bound, targetoid, whitish-yellowish round foci (pustules) with central, brownish horn plugs as well as inflammatory surrounding redness with ectatic point vessels.

Ostiofolliculitis. follicularly bound inflammatory infiltrate of neutrophil leukocytes located in the follicular epithelium, which breaks into the dilated infudibulum. here there is also loosely layered horn material and cell detritus. in the lateral section of the follicle a multiple incised (apparently untwisted) hair is visible.