Article
Pityriasis lichenoides chronica: stratification by molecular and phenotypic profile.
Human pathology - 1 Mar 2007
Magro Cynthia M, Crowson A Neil, Morrison Carl, Li Jingwei
Abstract excerpt
Pityriasis lichenoides (PL) has traditionally been classified as a benign papulosquamous disease. However, there is an increasing literature precedent that suggests that PL should instead be considered a form of cutaneous lymphoid dyscrasia. We prospectively encountered 46 patients with a diagnosis of PL and used immunohistochemical and multiplex polymerase chain reaction fragment size analysis to assess for...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Pityriasis Lichenoides
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Prospective Studies
- T-Lymphocytes
