Derm Dx

PATIENT PRESENTATION A 60-year-old man presented with a 2-year history of extensive periungual erythema and scaling of the right index finger, for which he previously received treatment with liquid nitrogen three times but had no...

Patient Presentation A 40-year-old woman presented with a 2-month history of a new scar on the left side of her forehead. The patient reported a history of abrasions from minor traumas to the forehead but denied any serious head trauma,...

PATIENT PRESENTATION A 57-year-old Caucasian female presented to our office as a referral from a local emergency room. She had lived in Arizona for 15 years. She complained of a pruritic eruption on her scalp, trunk, arms and legs that had...

Patient Presentation An 83-year-old Caucasian man was brought by his daughter for consultation because of a non-healing, slowly progressive lesion on his right earlobe, which lead to piercing of the earlobe.

Case Presentation A 67-year-old white man presented with a 6-month history of a slowly increasing in size, slightly pruritic, erythematous rash in his right lower abdominal quadrant extending to his inguinal fold and right side of his...

Patient Presentation A 65-year-old African-American woman presented with multiple nodules and large blackheads on her face, which she explained had gradually developed over the past 5 years. She was otherwise healthy and not taking any...

Case Presentation An 8-year-old, otherwise healthy, girl presented with 1-month history of an eruption of mildly pruritic, rough plaques over the skin of her elbows, knees and upper lateral thighs. Her personal and family medical histories...

Patient Presentation A 33-year-old pregnant woman, gravida one, para zero, presented at 34 weeks of gestation complaining of a progressively worsening pruritic eruption. The lesions began around her umbilicus, and over a few days,...

Patient presentation An 80-year-old Caucasian female presented with a history of “cysts,” lateral to and under the right eye.

An 80-year-old nursing home resident woman presented with a 6-month history of intermittent intense pruritus involving the trunk and extremities followed by an eruption of blisters on the palms and soles.