Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta with numerous CD30 + cells: A variant mimicking lymphomatoid papulosis and other cutaneous lymphomas. A clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular biological study of 13 cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1021-1029

  Kempf, Werner ^a,b   Kazakov, Dmitry V ^c   Palmedo, Gabriele ^d   Fraitag, Sylvie ^e   Schaerer, Leo ^d   Kutzner, Heinz ^d,f  

^a Kempf und Pfaltz Histologische Diagnostik   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Dermatopathologie Bodensee   (Germany)

^e HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

CD30; cutaneous lymphoma; lymphomatoid papulosis; parvovirus B19; pityriasis lichenoides

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD30 ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHOMATOID PAPULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, CD30; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMATOID PAPULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863331690     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31824f4f66     Document Type: Article

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