DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR ERYTHRODERMA Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC G01N33/48 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: biopsy is performed from the most infiltrated skin area. If the histological picture is characterised by the presence of psoriasiform acanthosis, hyper/parakeratosis, hypergranulosis, neutrophils in the epidermis and derma, psoriatic erythroderma is diagnosed; acanthosis, spongiosis, lymphocytic exocytosis, parakeratosis ensure diagnosing atopic erythroderma; hydropic degeneration of the basal layer of the epidermis, lymphocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis, colloid corpuscles show drug-induced erythroderma, whereas a patient having lymphocytic microabscesses, linear arrangement of lymphocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis, atypical lymphocytes in the epidermis and/or derma are diagnosed with erythrodermic mycosis fungoides or Sezary syndrome.

EFFECT: invention provides fast and simple diagnostic technique for erythroderma.

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