A 57-year-old man presented with a solitary flat pigmented lesion on his face, which had appeared two years previously and was slowly enlarging over time. Physical examination revealed a flat pigmented lesion, 8 mm in size, on the patient’s right cheek. The clinical diagnosis was suggestive of a solar lentigo (SL) because of the symmetric shape, the regular border, and the homogenous brown colo...

moved owing to a clinical suspicion of malignancy, we collected the clinical differential diagnoses for all pigmented lesions biopsied. We defined clinically suspect lesions as those for which the study dermatologist’s differential diagnosis indicated melanoma and/or dysplastic nevus on the pathology requisition form. In this way, lesions removed for cosmetic purposes were excluded from the BMR...

62 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Volume 9 | Issue 1 | January‐February 2018 Sir, Darier disease [DD; Darier‐White disease or (dys) keratosis follicularis], is an autosomal dominant disorder of keratinization with characteristic dermatologic findings such as keratotic papules on the seborrheic regions, brittle nails and longitudinal erythronychia, and palmoplantar pitting. Hypopigmented ma...

KLC: keratosis lichenoides chronica INTRODUCTION Keratosis lichenoides chronica (KLC) is a rare mucocutaneous eruption, with just greater than 70 cases reported in the literature. KLC is characterized clinically by hyperkeratotic papules arranged in a distinctive linear and reticular pattern distributed on the trunk and extremities. This eruption can sometimes be associated with oral and genita...

Seborrheic keratosis (SK) is a benign epidermal tumor of unknown etiology. Because of its wart-like morphology, human papillomavirus (HPV) has been suggested as a possible causative agent. Viral involvement, however, has not been confirmed yet despite extensive research. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of HPV 6/11, 31, 33 DNA in nongenital SK. We analyzed 40 biopsy specimens ...