The author describes the case of a three-year-old girl presenting with firm, painless retroauricular swelling finally diagnosed as deep granuloma annulare.

Granuloma Annulare is an flammatory bening skin disease that may manifest different clinical features.the most common presentation or classic form of the disease is fleshcolor,annulare,grouped papules,disseminated forms are rare and responses to treatments are vnot satisfactory.various treatment modalities have been used for this disorder and different responses to treatments have been reported...

GA: granuloma annulare IGDR: interstitial granulomatous drug reaction INTRODUCTION Granulomatous drug eruptions are rare and include interstitial granulomatous drug reaction, drug-induced granuloma annulare, drug-induced accelerated rheumatoid nodulosis, and druginduced sarcoidosis. The differential diagnosis is broad and includes granuloma annulare, lichen planus, connective tissue disease, sa...

Granuloma annulare is a dermatosis of unknown cause that is generally self-limiting and has several clinical forms of presentation. It may be associated with pruritus or present asymptomatically. The disseminated variant of the disease accounts for 15 % of all cases. Most authors consider that the duration of this form is longer and that treatment response is worse than for localized forms. A r...

AIMS In 2003, pseudorosettes were described as highly suspicious of infection by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the appropriate clinical context. Nevertheless, such a pattern has been described in the literature in other non-infectious conditions. On the other hand, granuloma annulare (GA) has been recently closely associated with infection by Borrelia. We investigated how frequently pseudo...

BACKGROUND Granuloma annulare is a benign inflammatory disease of the skin. The etiology and pathogenesis of the disease are not yet determined, but some authors have proposed that it might be associated with a variety of underlying conditions such as thyroid disorders, diabetes mellitus and positive tuberculin skin test. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to find the probable relationship be...

019 pityriasis rosea, Sjogren’s syndrome, subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus, tinea corporis, erythema gyratum repens (EGR) and erythema annulare centrifigum. These can be differentiated by laboratory investigation and histopathological analysis. Specifically recurrent circinate erythematous psoriasis (Bloch), though clinically similar, is characterized by the presence of histopathological ...