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- Title
Concurrent follicular dysplasia and interface dermatitis in Boxer dogs.
- Authors
Rachid, Milene A.; Demaula, Christopher D.; Scott, Danny W.; Miller, William H.; Senter, David A.; Myers, Sherry
- Abstract
Abstract Recurrent or persistent follicular dysplasia and interface dermatitis are described in nine Boxers. Data on age, sex, seasonality of alopecia and histopathological features of the follicular dysplasia in these nine Boxers are comparable with those described in previous reports. The interface dermatitis was characterized by multifocal annular crusted lesions confined to the areas of follicular dysplasia. The inflammatory lesions were neither pruritic nor painful and affected dogs were otherwise healthy. Histopathologically the clinically inflammatory lesions were characterized as an interface dermatitis. Immunohistochemical studies failed to demonstrate immunoglobulins or complement at the basement membrane zone or within blood vessel walls. In dogs with recurrent or persistent disease, the follicular dysplasia and interface dermatitis ran identical, concurrent courses of spontaneous remission and recurrence, or persistence, respectively. One dog with persistent disease was treated successfully with tetracycline and niacinamide for the interface dermatitis, and melatonin for the follicular dysplasia. Although the aetiopathogenesis of this newly described condition and the relationship between the two histological reaction patterns are not known, photoperiod and genetic predisposition appear to play a role.
- Subjects
SKIN inflammation; BOXER (Dog breed); DYSPLASIA
- Publication
Veterinary Dermatology, 2003, Vol 14, Issue 3, p159
- ISSN
0959-4493
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-3164.2003.00336.x