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A Mucocutaneous Condition in Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Infected Patients

Arch Dermatol. 1999;135:1404-1407.

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GRANULOMA ANNULARE is a benign dermatosis.^1-5 Although a single cause has not been established, multiple precipitating factors (such as UV radiation, trauma, and insect bites)⁵ and associated—possibly pathogenesis-related—diseases (including endocrine disorders^6-9 and malignancy^10-11) have been reported in patients with granuloma annulare. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been added to the list of conditions present in individuals who develop granuloma annulare.¹²

Several authors^13-18 cite an article titled "Unusual Cutaneous Lesions Associated With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome" published in the November 1985 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology¹⁹ as the original description of granuloma annulare in HIV-infected patients. In that article, Penneys and Hicks¹⁹ "review a spectrum of unusual infectious, nutritional, and malignant processes that have been observed in the skin of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)" and discuss "two homosexual men with disseminated papular eruptions that resembled granuloma annulare." However, to the best of my . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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