Annular elastolytic giant-cell granuloma

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Annular elastolytic giant-cell granuloma
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Annular elastolytic giant-cell granuloma (also known as "Giant cell elastophagocytosis,"<ref name="Bolognia" /> "Meischer's granuloma,"<ref name="Andrews" /> "Miescher's granuloma of the face"<ref name="Bolognia">, 

 Dermatology: 2-Volume Set, 
  
 St. Louis:Mosby, 
 2007, 
  
  
 ISBN 978-1-4160-2999-1,</ref>) is a cutaneous condition characterized histologically by a dermal infiltrate of macrophages.<ref name="Bolognia"/><ref name="Andrews">, 
  
 Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology, 
  
 Saunders Elsevier, 
 2006, 
  
  
 ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6,</ref>: 706 

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Localized granuloma annulare has a tendency towards spontaneous resolution. Localized lesions have been treated with potent topical corticosteroids.<ref>, 

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Cutaneous keratosis, ulcer, atrophy, and necrobiosis (L82–L94, 700–701.5)
Epidermal thickening
* keratoderma: Keratoderma climactericum
Necrobiosis/granuloma
Dermis/
localized CTD
Cutaneous lupus
erythematosus
Scleroderma/
Morphea
Atrophic/
atrophoderma
Perforating
Skin ulcer


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