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Residents’corner February 2014. DeRmpath & Clinic: Differential diagnosis in palisading non-infectious granulomas Volume 24, issue 1, January-February 2014

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Authors
1 Dermatology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal
2 Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Case 1: 31 year-old female with no relevant past medical background. Six-month history of papules and plaques with an annular pattern on the upper limbs. Case 2: 34 year-old female, with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes. Sixteen-month history of a yellow-brownish atrophic plaque surrounded by a raised, violaceus border, on the left leg.Palisaded and interstitial granulomatous dermatitis characterize both cases. Other aspects may help to determine the differential diagnosis.In the first case (figures [...]