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Expert Author: Sara Kitch | Submitted: 2008-03-27 | Word Count: 470 words | Views: 96 view(s) [View Summary]
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Comedones are originated by the aggregation of sebum at the external opening of the sebaceous gland conduct and/or the hair follicle. A comedone can become changed chemically, as well as physically, thus turning a material which is foreign to the body.

This condition of "foreignness" provokes a further inflammatory reaction, including immune reactions and other responses of various defense systems, specially those related with granulocytes and macrophages. If the inflammatory reaction and the immune and other defense reactions are efficient in eliminating or stopping the effects of the comedone, further advancement of acne manifestations do not happen. Usually, however, the immune and other defense responses are not efficient in terminating the acne process at this phase and the process progresses partly or wholly as described below.

While the comedone is obstructing the outlet of the conduct, the sebaceous glands can keep to produce sebum, which accumulates in the duct and in the glands, distending both. The distension and the consequent pressure produce further intensification of the inflammatory reaction in the nearby skin and subcutaneous layer and induce additional swelling (edema), redness (erythema), unpleasantness, and a mass, which includes the blocked and therefore encysted sebaceous gland ("redhead", "pimple", or acne lesion). Usually, the defense systems are not adequate to end this process promptly at the acne papule stage and it continues to progress as outlined below.

The above conditions promote the proliferation of bacteria, and the resultant infections affect the duct, the sebaceous glands and the surrounding tissues, usually in that order. The onset of the infection makes further inflammatory changes, thereby initiating a vicious cycle making continued and/or increased obstruction of the passage of the sebum, which in turn produces more pressure, more inflammation and continued or progressive infection.

This produces the formation of the acne pustule. The immune and other defense systems having been useless to prevent these conditions from arising, frequently fail to arrest or reverse the process early in the acne pustule stage and it persists or progresses further.

Nodules and cysts

Obstruction with or without infection produces the formation of cysts. Infection of a cyst produces the formation of an abscess which produces nearby tissue destruction. If this destruction of tissue has reached the connective tissue elements of the skin or subcutaneous tissues to an enough extension, healing is frequently accompanied and/or followed by scar formation.

The scars in acne can vary from minimal to extensive and highly disfiguring problems which are perpetual sequallae of acne. While the process by which acne appears and lasts for an indefinite time can and frequently does come to a halt as a result of therapy or spontaneously, the scars persist for life unless they are extirpated.

An inflamed lesion can sometimes totally collapse or explode, severely inflaming the surrounding skin, and sometimes destroying neighboring follicles. These lesions are as nodules or cysts.

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