- Pautrier microabscess (abscess)
- Pau·tri·er microabscess (abscess) (po-tre-aґ) [Lucien Marius Adolphe Pautrier, French dermatologist, 1876–1959] see under microabscess.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Pautrier microabscess (abscess)
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Pautrier microabscess — one of the well defined collections of atypical mononuclear cells found in nonspongiotic intraepidermal vesicles in T cell lymphomas and mycosis fungoides. Called also Pautrier abscess … Medical dictionary
Abscess — A local accumulation of pus anywhere in the body. The following are some examples of abscesses: {{}}A skin abscess is better known as a common boil; A peritonsillar abscess is a persistent collection of pus behind the tonsils; and A perianal… … Medical dictionary
microabscess — A very small circumscribed collection of leukocytes in solid tissues. Munro m. a microscopic collection of polymorphonuclear leukocytes found in the stratum corneum in psoriasis. SYN: Munro abscess. Pautrier m. a … Medical dictionary
Pautrier — Lucien M.A., French dermatologist, 1876–1959. See P. abscess, P. microabscess … Medical dictionary
Pautrier abscess — see under microabscess … Medical dictionary
