Immunohistologic and clinical immune characteristics associated with ultraviolet B (UVB) phototherapy of HIV-related pruritic papular eruption (PPE). (Research Report)

AUTHORS: P. Ruiz, M. Bogaert, G.E. Byrne, Jr. and R. Pardo. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla.

According to the abstract of the authors' presentation to the annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, held March 17-22, 1991, in Chicago, "PPE associated with HIV infection is a recently described lesion that presents as well-demarcated papules that are histologically characterized by the presence of a mixed inflammatory infiltrate primarily involving the dermis in a perivascular and perifollicular distribution, sometimes with eosinophilia. As part of a study initiated to evaluate the efficacy of UVB phototherapy on the …