CASE REPORT The 76 year-old uncircumcised male noticed an asymptomatic pea-sized erythematous patch on his glans penis 9 months ago. He received some topical medication over the lesion from the local clinics but there was no improvement. The lesion progressed in size gradually. He visited local hospital 2 months ago and an incisional biopsy was performed. The pathological result revealed erythr...

Volume 82, Number 5 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 517 A 15-year-old boy presented with papules concentrated on his bilateral forearms, elbows, knees, and trunk that arose suddenly five weeks earlier. The patient reported that the lesions became pruritic after showering. He had no personal or family history of similar lesions and took no regular medications. He was obese and had a f...

A 6-year-old boy presented with recurrent pruritic scaly lesions all over trunk for last 2 years. These lesions appeared spontaneously and resolved in 4-8 weeks without any sequale. Rest of the history was non-contributory and no other family member was having similar lesions. On examination, multiple, annular erythematous lesions with trailing scale at the inner border were present on trunk (F...

The patient was a 6-year-old girl with no past history of interest. She was seen for asymptomatic skin lesions that had appeared 2 weeks earlier on the palms of the hands. The history revealed that the lesions first appeared 15 days after the start of the summer holidays, coinciding with the beginning of prolonged, daily leisure activities in a family swimming pool. The girl had not had any pre...

Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease with a wide range of presentation and a relapsing course. In its typical presentation, it is a scaly erythematous plaque with thick silvery white scale. Verrucous psoriasis is a rare form of psoriasis with a clinical characteristic and histological presentation, it presents as a warty erythematous plaque, with a narrow differential diagnosis with ...