Educational Case: Dermatitis Herpetiformis

Janina Markidan; Richard Pfau; Cinthia Drachenberg; Kristen Stashek

doi:10.1177/23742895211006844

Educational Case: Dermatitis Herpetiformis

Acad Pathol. 2021 Apr 9:8:23742895211006844. doi: 10.1177/23742895211006844. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Janina Markidan¹, Richard Pfau¹, Cinthia Drachenberg¹, Kristen Stashek¹

Affiliation

¹ Laboratories of Pathology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040.¹.

Keywords: dermatitis herpetiformis; gluten hypersensitivity; hypersensitivity; immune diseases of the skin; organ system pathology; pathology competencies; skin.