《Slide 148.》Molluscum contagiosum, Skin

A. Brief Descriptions：

1. Common, self-limited viral disease of the skin caused by a poxvirus.

2. Multiple lesions with a predilection for the truck and anogenital area.

3. Firm, puritic, pink to skin-colored umbilicated papules.

 B. Gross Findings：

1. Waxy pink or skin-colored, firm, prutic papules with umbilicated center

C. Micro Findings：

1. Epithelial hyperplasia with epidermal growth downward in lobules.

2. Many epidermal cells contain large intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies, the so-called molluscum bodies.

3. The molluscum bodies grow in size as they move toward the surface.

4.  In the horny layer, numerous large, basophilic molluscum bodies lie enmeshed in a network of eosinophilic horny fibers.

5.  In the center of the lesion, the stratum corneum ultimately disintegrates, releasing the molluscum bodies and forming a central crater.

6. The surrounding dermis shows little or no inflammatory reaction.

D. Others：

1.             Viral disease of the skin (Poxvirus)

2.             Age: children & young adults; esp. males

3.             Predilection site: trunk and anogenital areas

E. Reference：

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