Localized Versus Generalized Granuloma Annulare: A Retrospective Review of 407 Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Granuloma annulare has been linked to diabetes, dyslipidemia, thyroid disease, collagen vascular disease, malignancies, infectious hepatitis, and systemic infections. However, these associations have not been systematically investigated when categorized by its clinical variants.

Objective

To evaluate disease associations of localized and generalized granuloma annulare.

Methods

In total, 407 granuloma annulare patients from 1989 to 2019 were retrospectively reviewed, categorized by clinical variant (localized or generalized), age (pediatric or adult), and diagnostic method (clinical or histologic). Descriptive statistical analyses and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed. Fisher's exact tests were conducted to produce unbiased probability

SUBMITTER: Yousaf A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8393453 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature