Chapter

The basics: diagnostic terms, skin anatomy, and stains

Schaumann body

Vacuolar change

Laminated calcified structure seen in sarcoidosis

Formation of clear spaces within the basal layer

Shadow cells

Verocay body

Cells with barely visible outlines of nuclei

Structure composed of two nuclear palisades

enclosing pink cytoplasmic processes, seen in
schwannoma

Spongiform pustule of Kogoj

Neutrophils in the stratum spinosum,
associated with spongiosis at periphery
(typical of psoriasis)

Spongiosis
Intercellular edema in epidermis with
stretching of cellcell junctions

Squamotization (or squamatization)

Loss of cuboidal/columnar basal cells, with
deepest layer now being polyhedral, pink
squamous cells

Squamous eddies
Circular whorls of squamous cells

Storiform

Figure 1-33 Shadow cells, pilomatricoma

Cartwheel or basket-weave pattern

Figure 1-31 Reticular degeneration, variola

Figure 1-32 Russell body, rhinoscleroma

Figure 1-34 Squamous eddies, irritated seborrheic

keratosis

Figure 1-35 Verocay body, schwannoma