Anatom3DLangerhans cells
Cellulae Langerhans · Langerhansovy buňky
Lymphatic & immune
Looks like
Branching immune cells spread through the epidermis, like a net lying among the keratinocytes.
What it does
Catch germs and foreign substances in the skin and carry them to the lymph nodes to alert the immune system.
Keeping it well
They drive contact allergies such as a nickel rash. Ultraviolet light suppresses them.
Related conditions
- Acne vulgaris
- Alopecia (androgenetic & areata)
- Atopic dermatitis (eczema)
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Boils and folliculitis
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Burns
- Candida & fungal infection
- Cellulitis
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chilblains (pernio)
- Cold sores (herpes simplex)
- Contact dermatitis
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Epidermoid (sebaceous) cyst
- Fungal skin infection (tinea)
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Hyperhidrosis
- Hypermobility and Ehlers–Danlos syndromes
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infantile haemangioma (strawberry mark)
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Keloid & hypertrophic scars
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Lichen planus
- Lichen sclerosus
- Lyme disease
- Mast cell activation & mastocytosis
- Measles
- Melanoma
- Melasma
- Mpox (monkeypox)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Nappy (diaper) rash
- Necrotising fasciitis
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
- Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Pilonidal sinus
- Pityriasis rosea
- Pressure ulcers & chronic wounds
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Radiation injury
- Rosacea
- Roseola (sixth disease)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Scabies & lice
- Scarlet fever
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Seborrhoeic dermatitis & dandruff
- Seborrhoeic keratosis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Skin cancer (basal cell & squamous cell)
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Sun damage & actinic keratosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Urticaria & angioedema
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Vitiligo
- Warts, molluscum and skin infections