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Granuloma

What is a granuloma?

Granulomas are diagnosed when histopathology of a skin biopsy Show a granulomatous knitting pattern

What skin conditions are granulomatous?

Granulomas can be found in the following skin conditions:

  • Abnormal wound healing - CME
  • Acitretin
  • Acne agminata
  • Actinic granuloma
  • Acupuncture and its role in the treatment of skin diseases.
  • Allergic granulomatosis
  • Atypical mycobacteria infection
  • Images of atypical mycobacterial infection
  • Body piercing
  • Chronic granulomatous disease
  • Common variable immunodeficiency
  • Crohn's skin disease
  • Cronkhita - Canada syndrome
  • Cutaneous infections - CME
  • Internal skin markers. malignancy
  • Skin Medicine - CME

  • Darier-Roussy subcutaneous sarcoidosis
  • Deep skin disorders
  • Dental breast
  • Dermal subcutaneous tumors - CME
  • Dermoscopy of others nomelanocytic injuries - CME
  • Eosinophilic granuloma
  • Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
  • Eosinophilic ulcer oral mucous membrane
  • Epulis
  • Erythema cancel centrifugal
  • Genital Crohn's disease
  • Granuloma annulare
  • Granuloma Ring Images
  • Facial granuloma
  • Inguinal granuloma
  • Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
  • Granulomatous cheilitis
  • Granulomatous dermatitis
  • Granulomatous vasculitis
  • Histoplasmosis
  • Infectious panniculitis
  • Inflammatory skin disease - CME
  • Intralesional steroid injection
  • Youth systemic granulomatosis
  • Juvenile xanthogranuloma
  • Koebner phenomenon
  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis
  • Leprosy
  • Venereal lymphogranuloma
  • Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
  • Majocchi granuloma
  • Mycobacteria - CME
  • Nail terminology
  • Necrobiosis lipoidica
  • Oral contraceptives and the skin
  • Orofacial Crohn's disease
  • Orofacial granulomatosis
  • Panniculitis
  • Periorificial dermatitis
  • Pulsed dye To be treatment
  • Pyogenic granuloma
  • Recurrent fissure of later Fourchette
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Riga-Fede disease
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Stoma skin problems
  • Skin problems in pregnancy.
  • Sporotrichosis
  • Subungual exostosis
  • Surgical procedures - CME
  • Systemic fungal infection
  • Skin reactions associated with tattoos
  • Terminology
  • Tick bites
  • Tuberculosis
  • Vascular skin disorders: image catalog

Histopathology of granulomas.

A granuloma is a chronic inflammatory pattern characterized by located aggregation of histiocytes with or without another inflammatory cells (eg. plasma cells, eosinophils, neutrophils), with or without necrosis, with or without vasculitis, with or without calcification, with or without foreign bodies. They may be due to infection or chronic inflammatory illness or reactions to foreign material.

The dermatopathological characteristics of various granulomatous disorders are described on the following pages:

  • Actinic granuloma pathology
  • Cancel elastolytic giant cell granuloma pathology
  • Bacillary angiomatosis pathology

  • Cherry angioma pathology
  • Pathology of cutaneous tuberculosis.

  • Erythema elevatum diutinum pathology
  • Pathology of erythema nodosum
  • Pathology of granuloma annulare
  • Interstitial granulomatous dermatitis pathology
  • Leishmaniasis pathology

  • Leprosy pathology
  • Lichen nitidus pathology
  • Pathology of lupus miliaris disseminatus faciei
  • Pathology of Malassezia folliculitis
  • Metastatic Crohn's disease pathology
  • Pathology of Mycobacterium marinum skin infection
  • Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma pathology
  • Pathology of orofacial granulomatosis
  • Rheumatoid nodule pathology
  • Sarcoidosis pathology
  • Syphilis pathology