Erythema figured

The term "figured erythema" is used to describe an etiologically distinct group of skin disorders characterized by arcuate, annular, garland-shaped, or polycyclic centrifugally growing formations that share common features only through this particular morphologic pattern.

Figured erythema is one of the clinical pictures in which figured erythema occurs:

• Erythema anulare centrifugum ( Erythema gyratum perstans)
• Erythema gyratum repens
• Erythema necroticans migrans
• Erythema chronicum migrans
• Erythema anulare rheumaticum.

Anular or polycyclic skin patterns are also observed in other clinical pictures without being counted as figured erythema:

• Anular urticaria
• Psoriasis, Erythema anulare centrifugum-like
• Rowell's syndrome
• Tinea corporis