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Acute phase

- eosinophilic necrotic keratinocytes
- satellite cell necrosis
- lymphocyte exocytosis in epidermis
- sparse, diffuse lymphocytic infiltrate in the upper dermis
- vacuolar degeneration of basac cells

Chronic phase

- acanthosis
- Civatte bodies
- cell necrosis in the basal layer
- subepidermal mononuclear cell infiltrate
- areas of separation of the basal layer from the dermal papillae

Late sclerotic stage

- epidermal atrophy
- thickened dermis
- hyalinized collagen bundles extending into the subcutaneous tissue