Articles related to SKIN CONDITIONS/RASH

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?

FDA approved new indications for these drugs in July, include a Janus kinase inhibitor and a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor for use in dermatology, a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor for partial-onset seizures, and an expanded indication for the TKI crizotinib.

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.

This case of a 51-year-old man with a 1-month history of multiple eruptive seborrheic keratoses on his back and a single painless nodule on his chest exemplifies the importance of performing a thorough evaluation in patients presenting with sudden-onset eruptive seborrheic keratoses.

Can you solve the case? A 40-year-old man presents with intermittent burning on his feet over the past three years, typically in colder months, often after outdoor activities. He has no history of disease, denies drug use, and does not smoke. What’s your diagnosis?