European Journal of Dermatology
MENUResidents’corner February 2014. DeRmpath & Clinic: Differential diagnosis in palisading non-infectious granulomas Volume 24, issue 1, January-February 2014
Authors
1 Dermatology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal
2 Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- DOI : 10.1684/ejd.2014.2340
- Page(s) : 139-40
- Published in: 2014
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 [...]