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Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy
Granuloma annulare is a benign cutaneous inflammatory disease, whose lesions have spontaneous improvement in two years in 50% of cases, but there is recurrence in 40% of patients. Treatment may be topical, intralesional or systemic. The use of phototherapy with narrowband UVB is highlighted, whose m...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29267455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20174994 |
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author | Muylaert, Bianca Pinheiro Bousquet Almada, Roberta de Vasconcelos, Rossana Cantanhede Farias |
author_facet | Muylaert, Bianca Pinheiro Bousquet Almada, Roberta de Vasconcelos, Rossana Cantanhede Farias |
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description | Granuloma annulare is a benign cutaneous inflammatory disease, whose lesions have spontaneous improvement in two years in 50% of cases, but there is recurrence in 40% of patients. Treatment may be topical, intralesional or systemic. The use of phototherapy with narrowband UVB is highlighted, whose mechanism of action in this disease is still unclear, probably related to the inhibition of T lymphocytes. Herein, a case of a disseminated granuloma annulare of difficult therapeutic management is described. It was treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy twice a week for six months, with good clinical improvement, being a good low-risk therapeutic option and that, in this case, provided quick and satisfactory response. |
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spelling | pubmed-57266862017-12-18 Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy Muylaert, Bianca Pinheiro Bousquet Almada, Roberta de Vasconcelos, Rossana Cantanhede Farias An Bras Dermatol Case Report Granuloma annulare is a benign cutaneous inflammatory disease, whose lesions have spontaneous improvement in two years in 50% of cases, but there is recurrence in 40% of patients. Treatment may be topical, intralesional or systemic. The use of phototherapy with narrowband UVB is highlighted, whose mechanism of action in this disease is still unclear, probably related to the inhibition of T lymphocytes. Herein, a case of a disseminated granuloma annulare of difficult therapeutic management is described. It was treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy twice a week for six months, with good clinical improvement, being a good low-risk therapeutic option and that, in this case, provided quick and satisfactory response. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5726686/ /pubmed/29267455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20174994 Text en ©2017 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Muylaert, Bianca Pinheiro Bousquet Almada, Roberta de Vasconcelos, Rossana Cantanhede Farias Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy |
title | Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy |
title_full | Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy |
title_fullStr | Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy |
title_full_unstemmed | Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy |
title_short | Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy |
title_sort | granuloma annulare treated with narrowband uvb phototherapy |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29267455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20174994 |
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