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Cornoid lamellation. A histologic reaction pattern.

T R Wade·A B Ackerman
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Cornoid lamellation is a constant histologic marker of porokeratosis in its many variants. This histologic appearance, heretofore thought to be pathognomonic of and restricted to porokeratosis alone, has also been found by us in a variety of other conditions. Cornoid lamellation is, therefore, analogous to the histologic findings of focal acantholytic dyskeratosis, epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, and follicular mucinosis as a distinctive histologic reaction pattern that reflects disordered progression of epidermal cells to cornification.

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T R Wade, A B Ackerman. 1980. Cornoid lamellation. A histologic reaction pattern.. https://doi.org/10.1097/00000372-198000210-00002

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