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Ashy DermatosisAn Apoptotic Disease?
John R. Person, MD;
Roy S. Rogers III, MD
Arch Dermatol. 1981;117(11):701-704.
Abstract
• Of nine patients with ashy dermatosis, eight were women; most were young adults when the dermatosis began. The incidences of atopy (five patients) and thyroid disease (three patients) were striking. Although some of the patients were clinically atypical, histologic study in all cases showed basal cell vacuolation, Civatte bodies, pigmentary incontinence, and a mild perivascular lymphohistiocytic infiltrate. Direct immunofluorescence microscopy, performed in four cases, showed IgM cytoid bodies. We hypothesize that the postinflammatory hyperpigmentation in ashy dermatosis and, perhaps, in other dermatoses may occur on the basis of basal cell apoptosis.
(Arch Dermatol 1981;117:701-704)
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minn. Dr Person is now with the Departments of Medicine, Sections of Dermatology, Brown University, Providence, RI, and the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Boston.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 7, 1981.
Reprint requests to Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55901 (Dr Rogers).
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