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Granuloma annulare associated with scleroderma Volume 7, numéro 8, December 1997

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  • Page(s) : 581-3
  • Année de parution : 1997

Granuloma annulare (GA) is a skin disease of unknown etiology, histologically characterized by focal degeneration of collagen with a surrounding infiltrate of lymphoid cells, histiocytic cells and multinucleated giant cells. Some cases of granuloma annulare are associated with systemic diseases such as diabetes mellitus [1-3], sarcoidosis [4, 5], thyroiditis [6], rheumatic fever [4], hepatitis, and scleroderma [7]. The fibrosis in scleroderma [...]