Granuloma faciale (GF) is an uncommon benign and chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by single/multiple facial cutaneous nodules.
Primarily a disease of middle-aged white men with rare reports of GF in Japanese, blacks, and children
Incidence/Prevalence
Rare; precise incidence and prevalence are unknown.
Etiology and pathogenesis are not clearly defined, but several hypotheses exist.
Sun exposure and heat exposure can darken lesions.
Eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis (EAF), which involves mucosal lesions of the nose/mouth, may have concurrent GF in approximately 1/4 of cases and should be considered in GF patients with nasal/upper respiratory symptoms.
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