The bandlike infiltrate obscuring the dermoepidermal junction with
cytoid body formation, confluent hyperkeratosis, irregular acanthosis, basal cell liquefactive degeneration, and apoptosis may closely mimic lichen planus.
Thelichenoid lesions typically show histopathologic features indistinguishable from those of lichen planus: orthokeratosis, hypergranulosis, irregularacanthosis, basal cell hydropic degeneration with
cytoid body formation, dense chronic inflammatory infiltration and pigment incontinence (5).
FINBACK : FUNPARK BURLAPS : BYROADS LANTUMS : LONGUES LUMPERS : LIMBECS
CYTOID : CUTLIP PORGIE : PARTIM
Both conventional lichen planus and its subtropicus variant have
cytoid bodies that stain positive to IgG and IgM on direct immunofluorescence microscopy, Dr.
