Ultrastructure of shagreen patch

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  • TKT Kobayasi
    T Kobayasi
  • PWP Wolf-Jürgensen
    P Wolf-Jürgensen
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Abstract
Dem11ark Abs1rac1. Sbagrecn patches, fibrotic nodules and normal appcaring skin of patients were studicd in 1hc electron microscopc. The patches and the fibrotic nodules showed thick compact bundles of collagen fibrils in the lower corium, the individual fibrils of which were normal. Ab normal collagen fibrils and tropocollagen-like fibrils were seen in groups or singly in thick compact bundles. Elastic fibres were few in 1hc lower corium o[ the patcbes.