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Noninfectious Granulomas in Pigmented Skin

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Granulomatous skin diseases are a diverse group of disorders as chronic inflammatory responses to infectious and noninfectious antigens and/or other organic or inorganic materials the immune system is unable to eliminate. The diagnosis of granulomatous diseases relies heavily on clinical and pathological examination; the unifying finding is an inflammatory infiltrate predominantly composed of histiocytes, macrophages, and giant cells, sometimes showing collagen degeneration and caseation necrosis. The clinical manifestations are generally rare and may differ in their incidence and presentation in individuals with heavily pigmented ethnic skin.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Nour Kibbi

  2. Department of Dermatology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Abdul-Ghani Kibbi

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  1. The Free University of Berlin, Medical School Charité, Berlin, Germany

    Constantin E. Orfanos

  2. Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology, Dessau Medical Center, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

    Christos C. Zouboulis

  3. Department of Dermatology and Venereology, HELIOS Klinikum Krefeld, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Kibbi, N., Kibbi, AG. (2018). Noninfectious Granulomas in Pigmented Skin. In: Orfanos, C., Zouboulis, C., Assaf, C. (eds) Pigmented Ethnic Skin and Imported Dermatoses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69422-1_29

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