Abstract
Dermatopathology is hard. Inflammatory dermatopathology is especially vexing. There is significant histologic overlap between entities. The terminology can border on the impenetrable. So often a specific diagnosis is elusive. As a result we often rely on diagnoses such as non-specific chronic dermatitis. Therein lies the problem. There is nothing a dermatologist or other clinician hates more than the diagnosis of “nonspecific 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. (2016). Introduction. In: Inflammatory Dermatopathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41897-1_1
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