Derm Dx

Patient Presentation A 47-year-old African-American female presented to our clinic with a 1-month history of a “rash” in her axillae. She denied any change in personal hygiene products around the time the eruption appeared. She was...

What’s Your Diagnosis? Patient Presentation A 16-day-old boy, status post full-term vaginal delivery, was noted to have bumps on his scalp at birth. He was otherwise healthy and doing well. His mother reported that the individual spots had...

Patient Presentation A 20-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of pruritic skin lesions on her hands, arms, feet, legs, abdomen, and face. These multiple, 4-mm to 8-mm red papules would appear in the morning and persist for several...

The patient was diagnosed with bathing suit lamellar ichthyosis, a variant of lamellar ichthyosis often seen in South African blacks.1,2 Background and History Originally derived from the Greek word ICQUS (ichthys), meaning fish, the...

Patient Presentation A 40-year-old African-American woman presented with widespread tender, brown-grey plaques with red borders that developed over 2 days. The lesions spared her mucosal and palmoplantar areas. The only positive review of...

A 33-year-old transgendered male to female presented to the emergency department for evaluation of “multiple growths” on her face, fever and chills.

Patient Presentation A debilitated wheelchair-bound 67-year-old man developed an abrupt-onset painful hemorrhagic tumor over the left pre-tibial surface, which rapidly grew and developed over several months. There was no history of trauma...

A 67-year-old Caucasian man presented to our clinic with a 4-month history of erythema and scaling on both hands (see top photo). Nine months earlier, he’d been diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP). At that...

Patient Presentation An otherwise healthy 20-year-old presented with a raised pebbly plaque on the right occipital area of the scalp, which he had since infancy. This plaque became prominent around puberty. He was concerned about the cosmetic...