Chronic eczema

A pruritic papulovesicular dermatitis occuring as a reaction to many endogenous and exogenous agents, characterized by erythema, edema aassociated with a serous exudate between the cells of the epidermis and an inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis,oozing,vesiculation, crusting and scaling and in the more chronic stage lichenification and thickening also occur.