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Munro microabscessL02.9

Author:Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

Last updated on: 10.01.2024

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HistoryThis section has been translated automatically.

Kopytowski, 1895; Munro 1898

DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.

Pathognomonically significant, abscess-like accumulations of neutrophil leukocytes within parakeratotic corneal layer areas at the border to the stratum spinosum in psoriasis vulgaris. See also microabscesses.

Note(s)This section has been translated automatically.

The occurrence of neutrophil granulocytes was first published in Polish in 1895 by Kopytowski from Poland (1900 in a French journal) and only 3 years later by William John Munro.

LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.

King DF (1979) Microabecess of Popytowski? On J Dermatopathy 1: 289-291
Kopytowski L (1895) Przycunek do zmian anatomopathologicznych w skorze przy luszcycy. Pat Towarz Lek (Warsaw) 54: 290
Kopytowski L (1900) Contribution a l`ánatomie pathologique du psoriasis. Ann Dermatol Syph 10: 765-769
Munro WJ (1898) Note on l`histopathology of psoriasis. Ann Dermatol Syph 9: 961-967
Ziemer M (2008) In: Löser Ch, Plewig F (eds.) Pantheon of Dermatology, S. 713-714 Springer Medizin Verlag, Heidelberg

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Last updated on: 10.01.2024

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

Editor: Florian Erwig