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Case Number : Case 867 - 15th October Posted By: Guest

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The patient is a 54 year old woman who has a few papules that are skin colored and depressed in the center on the dorsum of her hands. A shave biopsy is taken from the dorsum of the left hand.

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Sasi Attili

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[color=#003366][font=arial, sans-serif][size=4][b][i]Annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma[/i][/b][/size][/font][/color]

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[b]Actinic granuloma / [b]Annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma.[/b][/b]

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Guest Romualdo

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Granuloma annulare at severely sun damaged skin.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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Agree with actinic granuloma/annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma

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Robledo F. Rocha

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Agree with Romualdo. Actinic granuloma and its synonyms merely represent granuloma annulare in sun-damaged skin.

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Guest Jim Davie MD

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Annular elastolytic giant-cell granuloma (actinic granuloma annulare).

Although usually on head/neck, clinical history of multifocal, bilateral involvement of both dorsal hand would be more consistent with diagnosis of AGA, and help exclude a mycobacterial process. Histologically, there is a giant cell component, and distinct absence of mucin or necrobiotic/altered collagen that would suggest a primary granuloma annulare with incidental (bystander) elastolytic component. I would suspect that an elastin stain would show reduced stainable elastin within the central areas.

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