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Hillock

Hillock (tuberculum) in dermatology – primary pathological element of skin rashes; the infiltrate located in the thickness of a derma inclined to scarring and a necrosis.

Allocate:

  • Hillock lymphoid (lymphoideum): the hillock created preferential from lymphocytes arising owing to penetration of some causative agents of infectious diseases into skin, for example, of tuberculosis mycobacteria;
  • Planting hillock: the general name of the hillocks inclined to formation of ulcerations and merge to the main ulcer forming around a leyshmaniozny ulcer and with each other; appear owing to movement on lymphatic ways of skin of leyshmaniye.
 
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