Teledermatology is the delivery of dermatologic health care to remote locations by means of telecommunications and information technology. It facilitates delivery of services by a dermatologist at a different time and place than the patient who receives them. Both real-time videoconferences and store-and-forward systems have proven to be highly reliable and accurate in teledermatologic diagnosis compared to traditional face-to-face diagnosis.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Erythema annulare centrifugum

Erythema annulare centrifugum is the commonest of the annular erythemas.It may have a trailing scale just behind the expanding edge of a lesion.This patient had multiple lesions some of which joined up to form larger polycyclic shapes.The lesions generally resolve over a three week period.Cases can be associated with infections,drugs,underlying collagen diseases such as lupus erythematosus and rarely internal malignancy.
I do not see this condition very often.If they do not have fungus in the groin or on their feet I am usually stumped in finding the cause.Have others been more successful? View Images

posted by Dr Ian McColl at 1:12 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger Dr Ian McColl said...

I do not see this condition very often.If they do not have fungus in the groin or on their feet I am usually stumped in finding the cause.Have others been more successful?

1:29 PM

 
Blogger Dr. Shahbaz A.Janjua said...

Although infections, drugs, internal malignancies, and some autoimmune disorders have all been implicated as the etiologic factors of EAC but its quite challenging in our daily practice to encounter a case and find the offending factor at the same time.

7:10 PM

 

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