What's the difference between papule and pustule?

Papule


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Papula.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
  • (2) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.
  • (3) Cutaneous macroglobulinosis is characterized by multiple flesh-colored papules on extensor skin surfaces.
  • (4) These lesions are nondescript papules or nodules primarily involving the head and neck areas of young adults.
  • (5) All patients had punch biopsies taken from (1) a lesion containing Sarcoptes scabiei, (2) an inflammatory papule which did not contain a mite, and (3) normal skin.
  • (6) Widespread keratotic papules and striking hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles went unrecognized as a manifestation of tuberculosis, thereby delaying treatment in a patient with AIDS-related complex.
  • (7) Two morphological variants have been observed, typical wart-like flat-topped papules and larger confluent plaques.
  • (8) In 94% of the patients with dermatitis herpetiformis, a locally applied ointment with an ester of nicotinic acid (Trafuril) induced an abnormal reaction with erythema, edema, papules, and often vesicles.
  • (9) A 15-month-old girl had orange papules that formed V-shaped lines on her back.
  • (10) Sixteen cases of pruritic papules of pregnancy were collected during a 32-month period.
  • (11) PUPP is a specific eruptive dermatosis in pregnancy, clinically characterized by erythematous papules and plaques with intense itching in periumbilical localization.
  • (12) The child in an immunocompromised state who develops a red papule, then a black eschar with surrounding erythema, should have immediate biopsy that can easily demonstrate the characteristic hyphal forms.
  • (13) The patient had mild clinical symptoms consisting of numerous pigmented freckles and a small number of seborrheic keratosis-like papules.
  • (14) This favors the proliferation of Propionibacterium acnes which may initiate inflammation in microcomedos and lead to formation of pustules, papules or nodules.
  • (15) A 54-year-old female patient recurrently developed disseminated papules, red-brown in color and partly ulcerous, which spontaneously disappeared after 3-6 weeks.
  • (16) The disease was preceded by an erythema multiforme-like exanthema and urticarial papules.
  • (17) The reduction in number of papules and pustules was not statistically significant on either treatment.
  • (18) Widespread pruritic, urticarial papules developed at times of stress and exercise, each papule being surrounded by a striking blanched vasoconstricted halo.
  • (19) We have recently demonstrated that in pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) there are multiple dermal fibroblasts with no deposition of mucin.
  • (20) In addition, we discuss the clinical differential diagnosis of multiple firm, skin-colored papules.

Pustule


Definition:

  • (n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Preliminary the statistical data are reported about human malignant pustule denounced in Italy in different Districts, in Lombardia and in Province of Milan.
  • (2) This study indicates that small pustules underwent the consecutive changes related to the generalized polymorphous exanthem in KD.
  • (3) In this patient's farm, the disease was present for the first time and affected only 2-month old lambs in the form of numerous papulo-pustules located on the lips and later covered by hard and thick scabs.
  • (4) The morphological changes of the epidermis depented on the place examined and were most evident near fully developed pustules in the upper layers.
  • (5) The microscopic pathology of the abscesses revealed penetration of the epidermis by Candida pseudohyphae; the tips of the hyphal processes were seen within the pustules when sections were stained by the periodic acid-Schiff method.
  • (6) Seven patients are described, who had generalized toxic erythema with sterile pustules.
  • (7) All attachment sites showed acute inflammatory lesions, and sites of both tick species on high resistance cattle showed delayed hypersensitive reactions with intra-epidermal pustulation and significant increases in the numbers of granulocytes.
  • (8) Histology was not very specific, except for the presence of necrotic areas in the stratum germinativum, sometimes associated with small subcorneal pustules containing altered polymorphonuclears.
  • (9) Involvement of the face, neck, scalp, palms, and soles is a consistent finding, as is the tendency for these lesions to form pustules early in the course of the infestation.
  • (10) Histological findings were otherwise uniform and typical: intra-epidermal, unilocular, well-delineated pustules.
  • (11) The presence of subcorneal pustules in a solitary, indolent, crusted plaque, or in erythema annulare-like lesions with a trailing scale, is evidence of atypical psoriasis.
  • (12) Homogenized tissue specimens from lesional skin with and without pustules, and from perilesional, normal-looking skin of PPP and PP were analysed for the presence of chemoattractant(s) for PMN.
  • (13) This favors the proliferation of Propionibacterium acnes which may initiate inflammation in microcomedos and lead to formation of pustules, papules or nodules.
  • (14) These lesions subsequently progressed, with superimposed blistering and pustulation.
  • (15) The reduction in number of papules and pustules was not statistically significant on either treatment.
  • (16) Dilution of tissue fluids causes formation of some of the mediators of inflammation including those responsible for intraepidermal pustule formation.
  • (17) erythematous patches studded with crops of small pustules, and isolated large pustules with a red halo.
  • (18) A 27-year-old woman with a serologically documented human parvovirus infection who presented with a hemorrhagic exanthem and enanthem with areas of pustules and pseudo-pustules is described.
  • (19) The vesicles progress to pustules, then to crusts that eventually are lost.
  • (20) In 2 patients leukocytes from pustules were tested by the iodination reaction.

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