Bulletin of Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery
ISSN 1829-006X
2025; 313–318
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HISTOPATHOLOGYC AND DERMOSCOPIC FINDINGS OF SUBACUTE CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

Khachik Khachikyan*, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Armine Hakobyan, Anj Giragos, Anahit T Topchyan

Head of Department of Dermatology and STIs of Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi, Yerevan, Armenia · Assistant of Department of Dermatology and STIs of Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi, Yerevan, Armenia 3National center for burns and dermatology of MO, Yerevan, Armenia · Department of Dermatology and STIs of Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi, Yerevan, Armenia · f Department of Dermatology and STIs of Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi, Yerevan, Armenia

Received: 2026-04-08 · Published: 2025-04-10

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Original title
HISTOPATHOLOGYC AND DERMOSCOPIC FINDINGS OF SUBACUTE CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
Authors
Khachik Khachikyan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Armine Hakobyan, Anj Giragos, Anahit T Topchyan
Source journal
Bulletin of Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery
Published
2025-04-10
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Original
https://doi.org/10.58240/1829006X-2025.3-313

Abstract

The relevance, pathogenesis, classification, and clinical characteristics of a rare disease-subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus-are presented. A clinical case in a 60-year-old woman without signs of organ pathology is also described. A dermatoscopic examination was performed. In the affected areas on the facial skin, twisted, short linear, occasionally branching, unfocused vessels, predominantly bright red in color, forming incomplete polygonal structures, were identified. In the affected areas on the skin of the extremities, irregularly arranged dotted-granular and twisted short linear vessels of dull red color were visualized, along with structureless zones of varying degrees of discoloration, exhibiting whitish-orange shades. Pathomorphologically, the process is characterized by mild focal hyperkeratosis, vacuolar degeneration of the basal layer of the epidermis, a mildly expressed perivascular lymphohistiocytic inflammatory infiltrate, as well as a moderately expressed periadnexal (perieccrine) lymphohistiocytic inflammatory infiltrate. Based on the medical history, clinical presentation, and the results of dermoscopic and histological examinations, the diagnosis of psoriasiform subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus was established.
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