• Keep legs elevated.
• Elastic wraps or support stockings may be helpful when patients are ambulating.

Patient Monitoring Monthly follow-up or as dictated by underlying disorder

No restrictions

• Lesions will resolve over a few weeks to months.
• No scarring is anticipated.
• Joint aches and pains may persist.
• <20% recur

• Individual lesions resolve generally within 2 weeks.
• Total time course of 6–12 weeks but may vary with underlying disease.
• Joint aches and pains may persist for years.
• Lesions do not scar.
• Recurrences in 12–14% of patients: Occurs over variable periods, averaging several years; seen most often in sarcoid, streptococcal infection, pregnancy, and oral contraceptive use

• Vary according to underlying disease
• None expected from lesions of erythema nodosum