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Med Cutan Iber Lat Am 2005; 33 (6)

Generalized granuloma annulare: improvement with vitamin E therapy

Guiote DMV, Vilanova MA, Vieira R, Hernández-Gil SJ, Naranjo SR, Gutierrez SMT

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 261-263
PDF size: 195.72 Kb.


ABSTRACT

We present 2 female patients with generalized granuloma annulare confirmed histopathologically with no improvement after topical and oral steroids, immunomodulators, retinoids and immunosuppressive drugs. Vitamin E therapy was successfully performed in both cases, topical in the first one and oral in the other, with no following recurrence. We think that topical or oral vitamin E are possible alternatives to consider in the treatment of recalcitrant generalized granuloma annulare.


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