Lo. Rabinowitz et Mt. Zaim, A CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO GRANULOMATOUS DERMATOSES, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 35(4), 1996, pp. 588-600
Reaching a diagnosis or formulating a differential diagnosis in dermat
opathology involves combining information from clinical and pathologic
al sources. Traditionally, this process is presented as a chronologic
profession from the patient's complaint, through the evaluation of fin
dings, terminating in the microscopic examination of the biopsy specim
en. However, dermatopathologists often find the sequence reversed. The
y must first farm an impression of the diagnosis from the slide and th
en supplement it with clinical information. The purpose of this articl
e is to present the spectrum of granulomatous dermatoses from a pathol
ogic perspective. The dermatoses are categorized into five groups on t
he basis of histologic patterns.