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Case Number : Case 1258 - 20 April Posted By: Guest

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The patient is a 75-year-old white man with a punch biopsy taken from the right upper arm for disseminated lesions.

Case posted by Dr Mark Hurt
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Guest Tiberiu Tebeica

Guest Tiberiu Tebeica

Posted

Looks like actinic granuloma, which might be regarded as a variant of GA. I recently had a similarly looking biopsy from an old patient with disseminated lesions on sun exposed areas of the skin. Elastic stain highlighted a high degree of elastolysis / elastophagocytosis.

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Arti Bakshi

Arti Bakshi 286

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favour Actinic granuloma due to prominent elastophagocytosis, (But of course, actinic granuloma is considered a variant of GA by many)

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Dr. Richard Carr

Dr. Richard Carr 622

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History of disseminated lesions and depth would go better for interstitial GA / interstitial granulomatous dermatitis. Consider interstitial granulomatous drug reaction. Elastophagocytosis is pretty much a given with any histiocytic inflammatory infiltrate.

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Mark A. Hurt MD

Mark A. Hurt MD 383

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Clinically the diagnosis was granuloma annulare, and thus my diagnosis was interstitial granuloma annulare. Obviously, this kind of case requires clinicopathologic correlation to make sense. It looks as though you all nailed it!

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