HistoryThis section has been translated automatically.
Kopytowski, 1895; Munro 1898
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Pathognomonically significant, abscess-like accumulations of neutrophil leukocytes within parakeratotic corneal layer areas at the border to the stratum spinosum in psoriasis vulgaris. See also microabscesses.
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The occurrence of neutrophil granulocytes was first published in Polish in 1895 by Kopytowski from Poland (1900 in a French journal) and only 3 years later by William John Munro.
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- King DF (1979) Microabecess of Popytowski? On J Dermatopathy 1: 289-291
- Kopytowski L (1895) Przycunek do zmian anatomopathologicznych w skorze przy luszcycy. Pat Towarz Lek (Warsaw) 54: 290
- Kopytowski L (1900) Contribution a l`ánatomie pathologique du psoriasis. Ann Dermatol Syph 10: 765-769
- Munro WJ (1898) Note on l`histopathology of psoriasis. Ann Dermatol Syph 9: 961-967
- Ziemer M (2008) In: Löser Ch, Plewig F (eds.) Pantheon of Dermatology, S. 713-714 Springer Medizin Verlag, Heidelberg
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