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A 76-year-old Black woman arrives at the clinic for an evaluation of a slowly increasing bump on her face that she discovered about a year ago, which hasn’t itched, burnt, or caused any other pain. Is it a trichofolliculoma, a hypertrophic scar, basal cell carcinoma, or a cutis osteoma?

JAMA Network Open | Original Investigation

This case study describes an adult man with a history of diabetes and hypertension presenting with painful lesions on his arms and legs. The description covers the course of his workup for presumptive infectious dermatitis through differential diagnosis when the infectious disease workup revealed sterile lesions, to the final diagnosis of Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis).

Physicians commonly encounter patients with facial pigmented macules. In this patient, the diagnosis was Carney complex.