Inflammatory Nodules of the Leg.
- Author:
Kwang Hyun CHO
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Author Information
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords: Inflammatory nodules; Lower leg
- MeSH: Biopsy; Diagnosis, Differential; Leg
- From:Annals of Dermatology 2012;24(4):383-392
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: There is a group of diseases characterized by inflammatory nodules which generally located on the lower leg. They have certain clinical appearances in common, which often makes a differential diagnosis difficult or impossible on clinical grounds alone. There is a great variation in histopathologic appearance, which depends on the duration of the lesions and sites from specimens are obtained for biopsy. Therefore, separating and subclassifying inflammatory nodule lesions of the legs, based on the subtle clinical and histological variation, is not easy. Despite all these difficulties, a specific diagnosis can be made with an adequate clinic-pathologic correlation.
