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Annular Erythema: New and Revisited Variants

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Several skin diseases can present with annular lesions, including granuloma annulare, urticaria, tinea, erythema chronicum migrans, and lupus erythematosus. In addition, there are rare annular diseases whose nosographic identity is accepted including erythema annulare centrifugum (EAC) and erythema gyratum repens. In this chapter, rare variants of annular erythema whose nosographic positioning is still debated are discussed. They are annually recurring EAC, neutrophilic figurate erythema, palpable migratory arciform erythema, eosinophilic annular erythema, and annular lichenoid dermatitis of youth.

As long as their etiopathogenesis remains unknown, it is difficult to establish whether they are variants of reaction patterns or separate clinicopathological entities. Likely, annually recurring EAC and EAC may represent different aspects of the same disease. Palpable migratory arciform erythema is hardly distinguishable from EAC deep type, Jessner-Kanof disease, and lupus tumidus. Neutrophilic figurate erythema and eosinophilic figurate erythema are very similar clinically, differing only in the relative proportion of eosinophils and neutrophils.

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Colato, C., Maurelli, M., Girolomoni, G. (2021). Annular Erythema: New and Revisited Variants. In: Rongioletti, F., Smoller, B.R. (eds) New and Emerging Entities in Dermatology and Dermatopathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80027-7_6

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