Volume 86, Number 12 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 1141 An eight-year-old boy presented with blisters on his lower lip and tongue that had appeared two days earlier. One day after the blisters appeared, a nonpruritic, bilateral rash developed on his palms and soles. The patient recently had swum at a community pool, after which he reported fatigue. He had no fever, chills, nausea, ...

Extramammary Paget’s disease is a rare malignancy of the skin. We present case 62 year old woman with well-defined erythematous lesion left inframammary fold, without flaking, erosion or crust

Erythematous skin lesions due to infection with Borrelia burgdorferi will often disappear without antibiotic treatment. The aim of the study was to assess whether after disappearance of the erythematous skin lesion B. burgdorferi is still present in the healthy-looking skin of untreated patients. In six patients, a skin biopsy specimen was taken at the site of a previous erythematous skin lesio...

OBJECTIVE Chronic erythematous candidiasis also known as denture-related stomatitis refers to inflammatory changes of the denture-bearing mucosa. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of chronic erythematous candidiasis in a Lebanese population using clinical and microbiological examinations. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ninety-eight patients wearing full acrylic maxillary denture (50...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the validity of administering tuberculosis control measures based on tuberculin skin test (TST) erythema measurement. The present study aimed to clarify the relationship between the erythema and the induration seen following TST and to evaluate the validity of diagnosing tuberculosis infection based on the erythema following TST in school-aged contacts who h...

Calcinosis is rarely observed in juvenile-onset amyopathic dermatomyositis in contrast to juvenile-onset dermatomyositis. A 6-year-old female presented with several 0.5 to 2 cm-sized painless grouped masses on both knees for 3 years. The patient also presented with multiple erythematous scaly patches and plaques on both elbows, knuckles, buttock, ankles and cheeks. Her mother had similar skin l...