Catalog

Generalised eruptive histiocytosis

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Link to WHO Definition

Generalised eruptive histiocytosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/189754499

generalised eruptive histiocytosis s a rare benign cutaneous histiocytosis of unknown aetiology which presents typically in adult life with crops of asymptomatic skin-coloured, brownish or violaceous papules on the face, trunk and proximal extremities that resolve spontaneously to leave residual pigmentation. Histology shows a proliferation of monomorphic histiocytic cells in the upper and mid dermis.