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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.

See if you can figure out the diagnostic challenge that faced Daniel J. Lewis, MD, and colleagues at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

An 87-year-old white man presented to a hospital emergency surgical department with two round, grayish-brown nodules on his abdomen. He had no other complaints except feeling tired and dizzy for the last few months. He had a 120 pack-year smoking history but was not taking any medications and had not experienced a cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, or other breathing problems.