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Wolf's isotopic response.
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- Epidermal Nevus Following Thermal Burn Injury: A Pediatric Case of Wolf's Isotopic Response.Cureus · 2026Article
- Psoriasis colocalized within preceding vitiligo patches: A rare case of Wolf's isotopic response and literature review.JAAD case reports · 2026Article
- Deep Granuloma Annulare After Scalp Infection: Wolf's Isotopic Response in a Pediatric Patient.Cureus · 2025Article
- Postherpetic Pseudolymphomatous Angiosarcoma Concealed Within Milia en Plaque: Expanding the Spectrum of Wolf Isotopic Response with a Literature Review.Dermatopathology (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Wolf's isotopic response of eczema after herpes zoster infection: case report and literature review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Wolf's Isotopic Response of Eosinophilic Dermatitis After Herpes Zoster Infection: Case Reports and Literature Review.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2022Article
- A Case of Herpes Zoster Granulomatous Dermatitis: Report of Wolf's Isotopic Response.Annals of dermatology · 2021Article
- A New Skin Manifestation at the Site of a Previously Healed Dermatosis: A Case of Wolf's Isotopic Response.Cureus · 2020Article
- [Bullous pemphigoid on a healed herpes zoster : A rare example of an isotopic response].Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete · 2020Article
- Multiple Milia after Herpes Zoster.Annals of dermatology · 2018Article
- Multiple granuloma annulare lesions presenting simultaneously with herpes zoster infection: Wolf's isotopic response.JAAD case reports · 2018Article
- Becker's Nevus with Recurrent Eczema Limited to the Nevus Lesion.Annals of dermatology · 2018Article
- Herpes zoster infection after topical steroid use in the setting of tumid lupus erythematosus.JAAD case reports · 2018Article
- Postherpetic Comedones in Two Chinese Han Patients.Chinese medical journal · 2017Article
- Eosinophilic dermatosis of hematologic malignancy mimicking varicella zoster infection: report in a woman with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and review of the literature.Dermatology practical & conceptual · 2017Article
- Isoradiotopic response of lichen planus after radiotherapy of the breast.JAAD case reports · 2017Article
- Zosteriform impetigo: Wolf's isotopic response in a cutaneous immunocompromised district.Dermatology practical & conceptual · 2015Review
- Could It be Wolf Isotopic Response?: Occurrence of Dermatophytoses on Vitiliginous Skin-Case Series of Five Cases from a Tertiary Care Centre in India.Indian dermatology online journalArticle
- Breast carcinoma metastasis and Wolf's isotopic response.Anais brasileiros de dermatologiaArticle
- Post-Zoster Eosinophilic Dermatosis and Acquired Tufted Angioma: Isotopic Response.Indian journal of dermatologyArticle
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Abstract
The term "isotopic response" was coined by Wolf et al in 1995 to describe the occurrence of a new skin disorder at the site of another unrelated and already healed skin disease. When this term was found to be unsuitable for Medline searches because it generated hundreds of references that were linked with radioactive isotopes, it was changed to "Wolf's isotopic response" and eventually included as such in Stedman's Illustrated Dictionary of Dermatology Eponyms. Our search of the literature yielded 176 cases of Wolf's isotopic response. We describe this entity and present representative clinical examples. Some problems in the definition of Wolf's isotopic response are provided with special emphasis on its overlapping with the Koebner isomorphic response, a similar, but different, phenomenon. Also addressed are a number of issues associated with another term, "isotopic nonresponse," which had been introduced in analogy to the "isomorphic nonresponse" for describing the absence of an eruption at the site of another unrelated and already healed skin disease, or the sparing of the sites of another unrelated and already healed skin disease. In the spirit of the present issue, this contribution discusses only the clinical morphology and not the etiology, pathomechanism, or molecular biology of Wolf's isotopic response.
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