ERYTHEMA ANNULARE CENTRIFUGUM

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Abstract
Annular or circinate lesions are found in a number of dermatoses, but there is a condition that was first described by Darier1which has been given the appropriate name of erythema annulare centrifugum and which is believed to be an entity by those observers who have had the opportunity to study a case and to compare it in all of its details with other conditions of the skin that present annular and circinate lesions. A careful perusal of the accumulated literature on erythema annulare centrifugum convinces one that the majority of cases described as examples of this condition are cases of circinate urticaria or gyrate toxicoderma, probably closely allied to erythema multiforme or erysipeloid. If one has carefully studied a true example of erythema annulare centrifugum, certain features, which will be described later, serve to identify this condition, for the present at least, as a morphologic

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