Combined Epidermolytic Hyperkeratosis and Focal Acantholytic Dyskeratosis

1 March 1974

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology

Vol. 109 (3) , 385-386
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1974.01630030043010

Abstract

The blending together of epidermolytic hyperkeratosis and focal acantholytic dyskeratosis in the same biopsy specimens exemplifies the lability and variability of epidermal metabolism. A clue to the pathogenesis of these distinctive changes may be contained in this unusual histologic collision.

Keywords

EPIDERMOLYTIC HYPERKERATOSIS
FOCAL
DYSKERATOSIS
ACANTHOLYTIC
BIOPSY
EXEMPLIFIES
CLUE
BLENDING