© 2017 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow A 33‐year‐old woman presented with an asymptomatic skin‐colored papule with a central, outward woolly tuft, clinically appearing as white hair on the scalp skin. On physical examination, a 1 cm skin‐colored papule with woolly hair tuft arising from the lesion was found on the hairy skin [Figure 1]. No radiological in...

The colors that are seen in dermoscopy depend on the anatomic level of the skin at which the chromophores are seen. Blue color can be found in a variety of melanocytic and nonmelanocytic lesions. An 89-year-old man presented with a 3-year history of a slow-growing, hyperpigmented patch located on the distal third of the right arm. Dermoscopy showed an atypical network, irregularly distributed g...

Poddighe D. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-221500 Description A 14-year-old girl came to our medical attention for persisting/recurrent fever for several months; that symptom was associated to recurrent diffuse lymphadenopathy and urticarial skin rashes (figure 1). In the previous weeks, she complained of general malaise, diffuse arthralgia and musculoskeletal pain, in addition to pers...

a Delhi boil is usually discovered in the form of a small, slightly elevated, almost painless papule, which shows but slight inflammatory redness. After the lapse of several weeks, the papule, in one form of boil, slowly developes itself into a small, flattened, indolent abscess, 'which, either when left to burst of iis own accord, or when opened by incision, is found to have been filled with p...

Human orf should be considered based on a typical presentation with erythematous papule/nodule to avoid unnecessary over-treatment.

Dermoscopy revealed a well-defined, erythematous-pink tumor (Fig. 2A) with prominent, more or less evenly distributed blood vessels, with characteristic cherry blossom images mostly at the periphery of the tumor (Fig. 2B), and pale pink structureless areas (Fig. 2A). With a suspected diagnosis of eccrine poroma, the lesion was excised and the histological findings confirmed the diagnosis. Eccri...

Dermoscopy revealed a well-defined, erythematous-pink tumor (Fig. 2A) with prominent, more or less evenly distributed blood vessels, with characteristic cherry blossom images mostly at the periphery of the tumor (Fig. 2B), and pale pink structureless areas (Fig. 2A). With a suspected diagnosis of eccrine poroma, the lesion was excised and the histological findings confirmed the diagnosis. Eccri...