Collagenolytic (necrobiotic) granulomas: Part 1 - The 'blue' granulomas

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 353-361

  Lynch, Jane M ^a,b,c   Barrett, Terry L ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BASOPHIL; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; ELASTIC FIBER; EOSINOPHIL; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NECROBIOSIS LIPOIDICA; NECROBIOTIC DISORDER; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC VASCULITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; STAINING; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WELLS SYNDROME; XANTHOGRANULOMA;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COLLAGEN; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HUMANS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 1942436330     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0303-6987.2004.00194.x     Document Type: Review

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