Pink staining

Pink material in the Dermis                     See DX Path for details of the conditions below

Pink staining

Hyaline material in the dermis refers to homogenous pink deposits. They can be due to amyloid, colloid milium and are seen in Lipoid proteinosis. Occassionally paraproteinaemias can give this type of deposit in the dermis as can erythropoetic protoporphyria. Amyloidoma also a cause.The latter may occur at sites of insulin injection.

Pink deposits in the dermis can also be seen in some dermatofibromas, keloids and juvenile hyaline fibromatosis.


Amyloidosis

Lichen amyloidosis

Colloid milium

Colloid Milium

EPP

Erythropoetic protoporphyria

Flame figures of eosinophils

Well's syndrome

Fibrin

Bullous vasculitis

Gout

Gout

Lichen sclerosus

Lichen Sclerosus

Pilomatrixoma

Pilomatrixoma