Annually recurring erythema annulare centrifugum – a rare entity

Erythema anulare centrifugum (EAC) is a rare cutaneous disease which is characterised by either superficial erythematous annular centrifugally migrating lesions with classic “trailing scale” or with deep gyrate erythema which has more infiltrated borders. This clinical entity was first described by Darier in 1916.

Annually recurring erythema anulare centrifugum is a very rarely reported peculiar variant of EAC which has identical clinical and histopathological features to classic EAC1. Up to now very few similar cases are reported in the literature.

Here we report a similar case of annually recurring erythema annulare centrifugum in a young Asian female.