FOLLICULAR PUSTULOUS GRANULOMA-ANNULARE

We report a 73-year-old woman presenting with recurrent eruptions of g eneralized follicular pustules. Histological examination revealed, sev eral palisading necrobiotic granulomas with mucin deposits, with a per ifollicular distribution. A dense neutrophilic infiltrate in the upper portion of affected follicular structures gave rise to pustulous lesi ons, Scaly papules and pseudovesiculous lesions over the palms with de eper necrobiotic granulomas involving sweat glands and epidermal perfo ration coexisted in some of the eruptions with generalized pustules, W e propose the term follicular pustulous granuloma annulare for this pe culiar form of granuloma annulare, which widens the clinicopathologica l spectrum of presentation of this disease.