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آکانتولیز

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Acantholysis is the loss of intercellular connections, such as desmosomes, resulting in loss of cohesion between keratinocytes, seen in diseases such as pemphigus vulgaris, Grover’s disease, and Hailey-Hailey Disease. It is absent in bullous pemphigoid, making it useful for differential diagnosis. This disruption between cells causes intra-epidermal clefts, vesicles and bullae due to cells becoming rounded and no longer attached to one another.

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Acantholysis
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Foot-and-mouth disease - acantholysis in a sample of a skin vesicle: Necrosis of the stratum spinosum can be observed, and keratinocytes floating in the vesicular fluid (spongiosa).
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Dermatology

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skin disease
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dermatology
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Acantholysis
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