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Neutrophilic figurate erythema: report of a new case in an adult and comparison between adult and paediatric cases Volume 26, issue 6, November-December 2016

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Authors
1 Department of Medicine,
Section of Dermatology and Venereology
2 Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Section of Pathology,
University of Verona,
Verona, Italy

Neutrophilic figurate erythema (NFE) is a very rare inflammatory dermatosis, characterised by annular or polycyclic indurate lesions, and histologically by a perivascular and interstitial inflammatory cell infiltrate with numerous neutrophils and nuclear debris [1, 2]. NFE is a benign disorder that has been described both in infants and adults; the two forms are considered to have a distinct nature [1, 2]. Here, we describe a fifth case of NFE in adulthood and compare the characteristics between [...]