A Wildlife Biologist with Skin Lesions

A wildlife biologist with skin lesions.

A clinicopathologic study of precancerous skin lesions

Background: Precancerous lesions are disorders that are highlylikely to become malignant. Early diagnosis of precancerous skinlesions helps to prevent skin cancers. The aim of this study wasclinicopathological assessment of precancerous skin lesions inpatients referred to the dermatology department of Imam Rezahospital.Method: Two hundred and nine patients who were diagnosed withprecancerous le...

A patient with skin and bone lesions.

362 A 39-year-old nurse was referred for evaluation of bone lesions. Seven months earlier she had undergone a hysterectomy because of severe vaginal discharge and urge incontinence. Two months after the operation, she noticed pain in the mid left clavicula. There was no trauma, fever, redness or swelling. In the same period she developed red, itchy and scaling skin lesions of both hands, left f...

A young woman with diffuse skin lesions.

Figure 1. Computed tomography of the chest demonstrates long, dilated bronchi (short arrow), as well as the cystic " signet ring " lesions (long arrow), which are consistent with bronchiectasis. Diagnosis: common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) with epidermodysplasia verruciformis-like lesions. Epidermodysplasia verruciformis was classically described as a genetic condition involving diffuse w...

Skin lesions in a patient with epilepsy.

To cite: Tidman A, Jones R, Holme SA. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014207893 DESCRIPTION A 63-year-old woman presented with two smooth, firm, flesh-coloured lumps protruding from the nail folds of her left third and fifth toes (figures 1 and 2). She had a background of epilepsy but had never previously undergone neuroimaging. Periungual fibroma...