Dermatopathology

Photo Challenge

An Eruption While on Total Parenteral Nutrition

Author:

Lilly Y. Zhu, MD

Karen C. Broussard, MD

Alan S. Boyd, MD

Jennifer G. Powers, MD

A 47-year-old woman with a history of bulimia and gastroparesis who had been on total parenteral nutrition for 8 weeks presented with a painful,...

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Dermpath Diagnosis

Lichen Striatus

Author:

Jacqueline Graham, BS

Eric W. Hossler, MD

Lichen striatus (LS) is a benign, uncommon, self-limited, linear inflammatory skin disorder that primarily affects children up to 15 years of age...

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Case Letter

Bowel-Associated Dermatosis-Arthritis Syndrome in a Patient With Crohn Disease

Author:

Aly Barland, MD

Joseph Blackmon, MD

Garth Fraga, MD

Daniel Aires, MD

Rebecca Chain, MD

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Photo Challenge

What Is Your Diagnosis? Mycosis Fungoides

Author:

Carol B. Thompson, MD

Lesley L. Starnes, MD

Rebecca Todd Bell, MD

M. Barry Randall, MD

Cristina Shimek, MD

Robert B. Skinner Jr, MD

An otherwise healthy 62-year-old man presented for evaluation of multiple scaly erythematous plaques on the right upper arm and shoulder of 10...

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Dermpath Diagnosis

Secondary Syphilis

Author:

Alison E. Seline, BS

Brian L. Swick, MD

Syphilis often is referred to as the “great imitator” due to the protean presentations of secondary-stage disease, the most common of which are...

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Photo Challenge

Erythematous Scaly Papules on the Shins and Calves

Author:

Julia G. Gosis, MD

Stephanie Y. Daniel, MD

Barbara B. Wilson, MD

A 73-year-old white woman presented to the dermatology clinic with a mildly pruritic, slowly progressive rash on the shins and calves of 10 years...

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Dermpath Diagnosis

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Author:

Michael J. Isaacs, BS

Eric W. Hossler, MD

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection caused by intracellular organisms found in tropical climates. Old World leishmaniasis is endemic...

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Photo Challenge

Scaly Plaque With Pustules and Anonychia on the Middle Finger

Author:

Joan A. Chandra, BA

Anand Rajpara, MD

Joseph Blackmon, MD

A 69-year-old man presented to our dermatology clinic with a persistent rash on the right middle finger of 5 years’ duration (left). Physical...

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Photo Challenge

Sessile Pink Plaque on the Lower Back

Author:

Robyn Marszalek, MD

Phyu P. Aung, MD, PhD

Deon Wolpowitz, MD, PhD

Amy Yuntzu-Yen Chen, MD

A 47-year-old man presented with an asymptomatic, 2.5×1.5-cm, sessile pink plaque with a coalescing papular texture on the lower back of 30 years...

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Pediatric Dermatology

Bullous Henoch-Schönlein Purpura 
in Children

Author:

Charles B. Chen, MD

Srikanth Garlapati, MD

Jeffrey D. Lancaster, MD

Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a systemic vasculitis that is common in the pediatric population and often presents with the classical triad of...

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Dermpath Diagnosis

Chromoblastomycosis

Author:

Alison Spiker, MD

Tammie Ferringer, MD

Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissues that demonstrates characteristic Medlar or sclerotic bodies...

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