BASIC REACTION PATTERNS OF THE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE SKIN

Richard J. Reed, M.D., New Orleans, LA

DIRECTORY (INFLAMMATORY DISEASES):

This site is dedicated to a discussion of inflammatory diseases of the skin with emphasis on reaction patterns. Reaction patterns are common across spectra of basically unrelated inflammatory processes. Commonly, pathologists can provide no more than a general category, a category which identifies a reaction pattern. In turn, his differential diagnosis will hopefully lead the clinician to relevant diagnostic studies.

This DIRECTORY might be considered a base for operations. The nature of the program and the extent of material in each SECTION tends to impact on the reserve of a computer, if the reader progresses from one SECTION to another without first returning to this DIRECTORY; in the latter maneuver, please use the browser’s BACK button, rather than one of the navigation aids in the cluster of mauve bars in the MASTERBORDER or at the end of a page. Limited progressions are possible using the mauve navigation bars. The reader might, early on, encounter an empty browser screen. In the event, the reader should avail himself of the browser’s BACK button; he should click on the BACK button until he arrives back at the beginning, the DIRECTORY. He will then be able to search out a new SECTION. It is advisable to go from the DIRECTORY to a SECTION. If additional search is necessary, it is then advisable to return from the SECTION to the DIRECTORY by using your browser’s BACK button. A new SECTION can then by selected and examined. If other searches are required, this sequence should be repeated.

DIRECTORY (the mauve cluster of bars to the left provides access to the SECTIONS on this site).

1. Inflammation (general features); CLICK on general Inflammation (in folder of the CD, click on index 1)

2. Spongiotic and psoriasiform disorders; CLICK on spongiotic and psoriasiform dermatitides (in folder of CD, click on index2)

3. LP-like lichenoid disorders; CLICK on LP-like lichenoids (in folder of CD, click on index3)

4. EM-like and pityriasic lichenoid disorders; CLICK on EM-like and pityriasic lichenoids (in the folder of the CD, click on index4)

5. LE-like lichenoid disorders; CLICK on LE-like lichenoids (in the folder of the CD, click on index 5)

6. Vesiculobullous disorders 1; CLICK on vesiculobullous dermatitides 1 (in the folder on the CD, click on index6)

7. Vesiculobullous disorders 2; CLICK on vesiculobullous dermatitides 2 (in the folder of the CD, click on index7)

8. Vasculitides; CLICK on vasculitides (in the folder on the CD, click on index8)

9. Collagenoses; CLICK on collagenoses (in the folder on the CD, click on index9)

10. Panniculitides; CLICK on panniculitides (in the folder on the CD, click on index10)

11. Infections; CLICK on infections (in the folder on the CD, click on index11)

12. Granulomatous disorders; CLICK on granulomatous (in the folder on the CD, click on index12)

13. Borderland 1; CLICK on borderland 1 (in the folder on the CD, click on index13)

14. Clinical iconography; CLICK on clinical iconography (in the folder on the CD, click on index14)

15. Borderland 2; CLICK on borderland 2, (in the folder on the CD, click on index15)

16. Site diagram; CLICK on Directory (lavender bar at end of this page) (in the folder on the CD, click on indexextr).

NOTE: On the CD, the file, indexreedpatch, provides access to the same material that is available on Bill Weems’s website. Melanocytic nevi and common melanomas are discussed in an unscientific manner. On the CD, the file, indexhalo, provides access to a discussion of halo nevus and halo nevus-like variants of minimal deviation melanoma.