Efflorescence configuration

Efflorescences occur on the skin or mucous membranes isolated and sporadically, in seeding (dissemination, exanthema, enanthema) or arranged in various configurations.

Configuration

 * Linear: psoriasis, lichen ruber
 * Moniliform (rosary, i.e. singly in a row like a rosary)
 * Annular
 * Circinary (into a circle), semicircinary (into a semicircle)
 * Serpiginous (serpentine): tinea inguinalis
 * Herpetiform: dermatitis herpetiformis
 * Zosteriform: herpes zoster
 * Geographic, map-like: psoriasis
 * Iris: tinea faciei Kőbner's isomorphic phenomenon – papules in linear excoriation – psoriasis, lichen ruber, verrucae planea juveniles

related articles

 * Localization of skin changes
 * Skin efflorescence