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A 5-year-old boy from China who had IgA vasculitis at age 2 presented with progressively painful skin ulcerations on his extremities for the past month. Find the reason behind the skin lesions on this young boy by answering the image challenge.

A 70-year-old woman with a skin lesion on her right temple is referred for assessment. She claims that the site originally came to light about a year ago and has grown in size ever since. An erythematous, fibrotic plaque with a depressed center is discovered during examination. What is the most likely cause of the lesion?

A young Black man has been troubled by recurring papules and crusting pustules in the hairline at the back of his neck. What is the disorder and how would you treat it?

A 42-year-old woman with primary biliary cholangitis, presented with an increasing number of yellow skin lesions and generalized pruritis. She had plaques around both eyes, similar lesions on the palmar surfaces of the hands, nodules on the dorsal joints of the hands, and pale pink lesions on the left buttock as well as mild jaundice and scleral icterus. Walk through the differential and treatment options in this case withaccompanying editorial.

The lesion had been present for approximately 4 years in this healthy adolescent male.Physical examination reveals a 0.3-cm firm papule with a brownish hue and no similarlesions elsewhere. What is the diagnosis?

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?