Scratching and rubbing at a lesion

Scratched papula of a Lichen planus. Many neutrophile granulocytes and subepidermal fibrin deposits play no part in the histopathological picture of Lichen planus. Only a blurry junction area and individual necrotic keratinocytes at the border area of the excoriation point towards this diagnosis.

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