Abstract
Dermatopathology is a hard subject and inflammatory dermatopathology is especially vexing. There is significant histologic overlap between the entities. The terminology can border on the impenetrable, and so, a specific diagnosis is often elusive. As a result we rely on diagnoses such as non-specific chronic dermatitis. Therein lies the problem. There is nothing that dermatologists or other clinicians hate more than the diagnosis of “non-specific chronic dermatitis.” It does not have to be this way. One can still make a descriptive diagnosis that is actually helpful to the clinician.
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Billings, S.D., Cotton, J. (2010). Introduction. In: Inflammatory Dermatopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-838-6_1
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