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Miescher's granuloma (Alfred Guido Miescher)
Also known as:
Miescher's radial granuloma (Alfred Guido Miescher)
Associated persons:
Alfred Guido Miescher
Description:
An annular lesion with raised border seen on skin chronically exposed to the sun. Microscopically it shows phagocytosis of dermal elastic fibres by giant cells and histiocytes. It is a histopathologic hallmark of erythema nodosum.
Bibliography:
- G. Miescher:
Zur Histologie des Erythema nodosum.
Acta dermato-venereologica, Stockholm, 1947, 27: 447-468.
- M. J. Nubé:
Miescher's granuloma in erythema nodosum.
Dermatologica, Basel, 1050, 101: 80-84.
- G. Miescher:
Zur Frage der Radiärknötchen beim Erythema nodosum.
Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis, 1951, 193: 251-256.
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