Figurate erythema

Authors

  • Ana Paula Giraldo
  • Andrea Arango

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29176/2590843X.273

Keywords:

Figurate erythema, erythema annulare centrifugum, erythema gyratum repens, erythema migrans, necrolytic migratory erythema

Abstract

There are many skin diseases that adopt different clinical patterns such as annular, circinate, arcuate, and polycyclic configurations among others. Actually many of them have been grouped by this morphology within the group of figurate erythemas; hereby it is important to have them present when observing a distinctive clinical pattern distribution, to make a diagnosis and to prescribe an appropriate treatment, besides, in some cases, to suspect organic causes that might trigger this type of reactive lesions, some of which can have a poor prognosis.
In this article, the main figurate erythemas will be reviewed, including erythema annulare centrifugum, erythema gyratum repens, erythema migrans and necrolytic migratory erythema.

Author Biographies

Ana Paula Giraldo

Médica, Residente de Dermatología, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia

Andrea Arango

Dermatóloga, Universidad CES

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Giraldo AP, Arango A. Figurate erythema. rev. asoc. colomb. dermatol. cir. dematol. [Internet]. 2014 Jul. 1 [cited 2024 Jul. 22];22(3):189-9. Available from: https://revista.asocolderma.org.co/index.php/asocolderma/article/view/273

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