Pityriasis rubra pilaris (overview) Images

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (adult type): chronic recurrent course for years with phases of marked improvement and extensive recurrence (fig. in a relapse period); conspicuous an anular-edged (Collerette-like), coarse lamellar exfoliative desquamation, which can be peeled off like a cellophane skin

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (adult type): chronic recurrent course for many years with phases of marked improvement and extensive recurrence; now maximum shear activity with development of erythroderma.

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (adult type): chronic recurrent course for years with phases of marked improvement and extensive recurrences; development of erythroderma with multiple bright areas (nappes claires).

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (adult type):chronic recurrent course for years with phases of marked improvement and extensive recurrence (fig. in one relapse period); now complete erythroderma.

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (adult type): chronic recurrent course for years with phases of marked improvement and extensive recurrences; now formation of erythroderma; striking bizarre bright spots (nappes claires).

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (adult type) Detail: chronic recurrent course for years with phases of marked improvement and extensive recurrence (fig. in a relapse period). Characteristic for the disease are the boundaries of the plaques drawn with a sharp pencil, resulting in the so-called "nappes claires", sharply recessed zones of unaffected skin in the case of extensive infestation.

Pityriasis rubra pilaris, juvenile type: flat, sharply marked, orange-red plaques on the face and trunk

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (adult type): Sharply set off towards the wrist (difference to hyperkeratotic palmar eczema), alternating, flat palamarkeratosis.

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (overview): diffuse, symptomless plantar keratosis in the juvenile type of pityriasis rubra pilaris.