Painful Skin Nodules

CASE: Multiple painful nodules on the back

A 43-year-old middle-eastern woman was visited with a 15-year history of multiple painful cutaneous nodules on her back. The first lesion appeared on her back when she was 28 years old. As she aged, the lesions became larger, more numerous, and more painful with cold or physical contact. Her medical history was not significant. The patient’s medications included naproxen, calcium-D, and vitamin...

Breath-taking Skin Nodules*

.A31.Yearold black man presented in the emergency room with acute shortness of breath. Physical examination revealed numerous symmetrical asymptomatic firm nodules scattered over his trunk and extremities (Fig 1). Auscultation of his chest revealed diffuse intermittent rales over all lung fields. Review of systems was significant for a ten pound weight loss in the last month, increasing dyspnea...

Treatment of persistent painful nodules of hidradenitis suppurativa with cryotherapy.

We report outcomes for 10 patients with persistent painful nodules of hidradenitis suppurativa treated with cryotherapy. Eight patients reported improvement and to date have had no recurrence of lesions at the treated sites. Most patients had significant pain during and after treatment. Eight patients had post-treatment ulceration, infection or both. The average number of days for the treatment...

Smoker with Raynaud phenomenon and painful nodules on the legs.

Acute-Onset of Multiple Painful Nodules over Forearms and Back.

Angiolipomas are benign encapsulated, well circumscribed tumours, which show excessive degree of vascular proliferation. Clinically, lesions present as sudden onset of multiple painful nodules. Pain usually does not respond to analgesics. We herein, report a case of a young male, presenting with multiple painful nodules over the forearm and back, which on histopathological examination revealed,...