I Esfandiar Pour; H Yavari
Volume 9, Issue 3 , 2006, , Pages 294-294
Abstract
Granuloma annulare(GA) is an inflammatory benign cutaneous disease of unknown etiology that may manifest different clinical features. The most common presentation or classic form of the disease is manifested as flesh colored, annular grouped papules, commonly involving the hands and feet. Various skin ...
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Granuloma annulare(GA) is an inflammatory benign cutaneous disease of unknown etiology that may manifest different clinical features. The most common presentation or classic form of the disease is manifested as flesh colored, annular grouped papules, commonly involving the hands and feet. Various skin injuries and infections have been reported to trigger GA, including insect bites, warts, herpes zoster, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus infections.Several clinical manifestations have been reported for this disease such as localized, generalized, subcutaneous, linear, perforating and patch GA, have been reported. Linear form is a rare variant of localized GA, and other skin diseases occuring in a linear configuration such as rheumatoid nodule, wart, morphea, and epidermal nevus must be differentiated from linear GA. This report describes a case of a 3 cm linear, flesh-colored, lesion with beaded border on dorsum of right index finger in a 8-year-old girl with histological findings of GA.
I Esfandiar Pour; F Darvish Damavandi; F Fahimi
Volume 7, Issue 3 , 2004, , Pages 185-191
Abstract
Generalized granuloma (GA) is an inflammatory benign cutaneous disease of unknown etiology that may manifest different clinical features. The most common presentation or classic form of the disease is flesh colored, annular, grouped papules. They usually are on the extremities especially on the lateral ...
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Generalized granuloma (GA) is an inflammatory benign cutaneous disease of unknown etiology that may manifest different clinical features. The most common presentation or classic form of the disease is flesh colored, annular, grouped papules. They usually are on the extremities especially on the lateral or dorsal surfaces of the fingers, hands, wrists, ankles, and insteps. Several clinical manifestations have been reported for this disease. Variants, such as localized, generalized, subcutaneous, linear, perforating and patch GA, have been reported. The generalized form may present as either disseminated, individual, usually skin-colored papules arise anywhere on the skin surface especially trunk, or annular to circinate erythematous lesions that resemble erythema multiform, erythema migrans, erythema annulare centrifugum and erythema gyratum repens. In latter group, the popular quality is less obvious than the erythema. In these lesions, rings may spread centrifugally and central hyper pigmentation may be present. This report describes a case of generalized GA in a 46-year-old diabetic woman with annular and circinate erythematous plaques resembling erythema annulare. At first according to clinical and histological findings, diagnosis of erythema gyratum repens had been suggested but later, GA was confirmed.
I Esfandiar Pour; P Afshar Zadeh
Volume 6, Issue 3 , 2003, , Pages 13-18
Abstract
Background: Some skin diseases cause severe stress in patients and relieving these stresses greatly helps to treat the underlying disease and to prevent the recrudescence of it. Objectives: To determine the frequency of depression in patients suffering from vitiligo. Patients and Methods: 120 patients ...
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Background: Some skin diseases cause severe stress in patients and relieving these stresses greatly helps to treat the underlying disease and to prevent the recrudescence of it. Objectives: To determine the frequency of depression in patients suffering from vitiligo. Patients and Methods: 120 patients with a clinical diagnosis of vitiligo referred to dermatologic clinics in Kerman from 1380 to 1381 were studied. The impression of vitiligo was made according to clinical interview and physical examination. After filling the questionnaire the patients were referred to psychiatric clinic to fill in the Hamilton questionnaire. Results: 120 patients included 74 women (61.6%) and 46 men (38.4%) with mean age of 23±13 years. 30.83% (37 patients) had no depressive disorder, 38.34% (46 patients) had depressed mood and 30.83% (37 patients) had major depressive disorder. From 37 patients with major depressive disorder, 27 patients (73%) were female and 10 patients (27%) were male (P<0.001). Conclusion: Any clinical intervention that reduces the extension and visibility of depigmentation will have psychologic benefit. It may be important to recognize and deal with the social and psychologic consequences of the disease.