GRANULOMA ANNULARE

Abstract

IN 1893 I read before the American Dermatological Association, at their annual meeting at Milwaukee, a paper on " Lupus Erythematosus as an Imitator,"* and gave as an example of its sometimes imitating Lichen planus a case which subsequent experience of like cases has led me to believe belongs to a special type of disease midway between an inflammation and a neoplasm, both in its clinical and pathological features.Although some of the cases have been previously published, I repeat them here for convenience of future reference.CASE I.-PERsoNAL.-AlexanderT., aged 20, photographer, came first to University College Hospital lts an out-patient on May 25th, 1892.The disease for which he sought advice, began when he waa in good health, four years previously, on the right wrist and on the extensor aspect of the root of the thumb.The first lesions were two split-pea sized slightly raised flat nodules of a pale red colour, which were accompanied by slight itching.They increased very slightly in