A Case of Herpetic Folliculitis.
- Author:
Seok Ki MOON
1
;
Chan Woo KIM
;
Dong Hoon SHIN
;
Jong Soo CHOI
;
Ki Hong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea. dhshin@med.yu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Folliculitis;
Herpes virus
- MeSH:
Acantholysis;
Diagnosis;
Epithelium;
Folliculitis*;
Keratinocytes;
Skin
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
2007;45(9):976-978
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The histopathological findings of herpes virus infection of the skin are characterized as an intraepidermal vesicle formed by acantholysis with ballooning degeneration of keratinocytes and multinucleated keratinocytes. Involvement of follicular epithelium is known to occur as herpetic folliculitis. Although herpetic skin infection is very common, herpetic folliculitis is infrequently reported in the literature. It is important to confirm the diagnosis by histopathologic finding because of its atypically clinical manifestation. We report an unusual case in which typical clinical features of herpes virus infection were absent and histopathologically characterized by herpetic folliculitis without surface epithelium change.
