SUPERFICIAL PERIVASCULAR DERMATITIS
BALLOONING
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Lymphocytes predominate | Steel-gray nuclei and margination of chromatin | Herpesvirus infection |
| Individual necrotic keratinocytes and multinucleated epithelial giant cells | Measles | ||
| Interface | Lymphocytes predominate | Individual necrotic keratinocytes, normal cornified layer | Erythema multiforme |
| Individual necrotic keratinocytes,prominent granular layer, parakeratosis | Graft vs. host reaction | ||
| Eosinophils and neutrophils prominent | Individual necrotic keratinocytes, ballooning, normal cornified layer | Fixed drug eruption, superficial | |
| Individual necrotic keratinocytes, spongiosis, neutrophils as solitary units within epidermis | Toxic shock syndrome | ||
Psoriasiform |
Lymphocytes predominate | Intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies | Orf Milker's nodule |