Dermatology Digest

What is behind this postpartum puzzler?

January 10, 2012

A young mother has a healthy baby boy—and a new-onset vesicular, bullous rash that developed very quickly after the birth.
 

Nodules that developed months after treatment

, Daifullah Al Aboud, MD December 08, 2011

A travel history and biopsy results led to a quick diagnosis and successful treatment—until new lesions made their appearance.
 

How is this web space lesion best treated?

November 09, 2011

Deciding the best approach to a hard-to-monitor lesion of unknown duration required judgment based on both objective and subjective input.
 

Is this edema and firming of the skin a severe sign?

October 11, 2011

This female patient experiences a series of unusual changes on the skin of both her hands: edema, whitening and pain in the fingertips, and cyanosis.
 

What caused the rash 
on this 
high school 
athlete?

September 07, 2011

A high school athlete develops a number of multiplying pink and slightly translucent papules on the right and left sides of the neck.
 

What caused these itchy white bumps on the wrists?

August 09, 2011

A 43-year-old man wishes to have a number of white, terribly pruritic papules and nodules on his wrists reevaluated.
 

What is this psoriasiform plaque?

, Amor Khachemoune, MD, FAAD July 06, 2011

A male patient presents with an expanding, erythematous region on his right knee that had proved unresponsive to topical corticosteroids.
 

What is this slow-growing preauricular lesion?

, Amor Khachemoune, MD, FAAD June 07, 2011

A 78-year-old white male presented for evaluation of a steadily growing, increasingly red, pruritic lesion on the right side of his neck below the ear.
 

What caused this woman's addiction 
to steroids?

May 04, 2011

After a facial eruption persists for over 6 months and the patient experiences tingling after discontinuing a steroid cream, she presents for evaluation of the condition.
 

What caused this spotted, itchy rash on the shins?

April 06, 2011

A female patient presents with multiple reddish to brown lesions that were present for over a year but had recently multiplied.
 
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