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

Links

related articles

• Localization of skin changes
• Skin efflorescence

Source

• BENEŠ, Jiří. Studijní materiály [online]. ©2007. [cit. 4.2.2011]. <http://jirben2.chytrak.cz/>.

Literature

• ŠTORK, Jiří. Dermatovenerology. 1. edition. Prague : Galén, Karolinum, 2008. 502 pp. ISBN 978-80-7262-371-6.