Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association?

We report a 60-year-old Caucasian female with a 2-year history of diffused granuloma annulare (GA), who presented for the simultaneous occurrence of genital lichen sclerosus (LS) and autoimmune thyroiditis (AT). In our opinion this combination is not just coincidental but may share similar immunopat...

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Autores principales: De Paola, Mariele, Batsikosta, Anastasia, Feci, Luca, Benedetti, Mattia, Bilenchi, Roberta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23738153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/289084
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author De Paola, Mariele
Batsikosta, Anastasia
Feci, Luca
Benedetti, Mattia
Bilenchi, Roberta
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description We report a 60-year-old Caucasian female with a 2-year history of diffused granuloma annulare (GA), who presented for the simultaneous occurrence of genital lichen sclerosus (LS) and autoimmune thyroiditis (AT). In our opinion this combination is not just coincidental but may share similar immunopathological mechanisms.
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spelling pubmed-36644832013-06-04 Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association? De Paola, Mariele Batsikosta, Anastasia Feci, Luca Benedetti, Mattia Bilenchi, Roberta Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report We report a 60-year-old Caucasian female with a 2-year history of diffused granuloma annulare (GA), who presented for the simultaneous occurrence of genital lichen sclerosus (LS) and autoimmune thyroiditis (AT). In our opinion this combination is not just coincidental but may share similar immunopathological mechanisms. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3664483/ /pubmed/23738153 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/289084 Text en Copyright © 2013 Mariele De Paola et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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De Paola, Mariele
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Feci, Luca
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Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association?
title Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association?
title_full Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association?
title_fullStr Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association?
title_full_unstemmed Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association?
title_short Granuloma Annulare, Autoimmune Thyroiditis, and Lichen Sclerosus in a Woman: Randomness or Significant Association?
title_sort granuloma annulare, autoimmune thyroiditis, and lichen sclerosus in a woman: randomness or significant association?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23738153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/289084
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