Unilateral Palmar Post-traumatic Granuloma Annulare – Work-related?


Author(s):

Anca Chiriac¹,²,³, Piotr Brzezinski⁴, Liliana Foia⁵, Horațiu Moldovan⁶ Cristian Podoleanu⁷, Adrian Năznean⁸, Simona Stolnicu⁹

Affiliation:

¹ Apollonia University, Department of Dermatology, Iași, Romania
² “P. Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iași, Romania
³ Nicolina Medical Center, Iași, Romania
⁴ 6th Military Support Unit, Utska, Poland
⁵ “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania
⁶ Department of Occupational Medicine, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Târgu Mureș, Romania
⁷ Department of Cardiology, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Târgu Mureș, Romania
⁸ Department of Foreign Languages, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Târgu Mureș, Romania
⁹ Department of Pathology, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Târgu Mureș, Romania

DOI: 10.2478/jim-2019-0011

ABSTRACT

Granuloma annulare (GA) is a granulomatous skin condition that can present with a diversity of clinical manifestations and locations, with an unknown etiology and diagnosed on clinicalpathological grounds/correlations. Although many trigger factors have been described and several pathogenic mechanisms proposed, the etiology of GA remains unknown. We report a case of work-related, isolated, unilateral GA localized on