Fifty Dermatological Cases

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 12
Case 1 Haematemesis and warts......Page 14
Case 2 Annular lesions on the face of a neonate......Page 22
Case 3 A warty plaque on the sole of the foot......Page 28
Case 4 Dystrophic nails and lethargy......Page 34
Case 5 Stretchy skin......Page 41
Case 6 Chronic scaling of the scalp......Page 47
Case 7 Generalized papular thickening of the skin......Page 54
Case 8 Flexural erythema following chemotherapy......Page 61
Case 9 Painful pustules in pregnancy......Page 67
Case 10 Discharging nodules on the jaw......Page 73
Case 11 Thickening of the facial skin, weakness of the hands and loss of peripheral sensation......Page 80
Case 12 A facial and anogenital rash in an infant......Page 87
Case 13 Non-healing dog bites......Page 93
Case 14 Two patients with pustular plaques on a neurosurgical ward......Page 100
Case 15 Fever and purpuric lesions in an infant......Page 106
Case 16 Photosensitivity with skin cancers......Page 113
Case 17 A papular eruption in a patient with leukaemia......Page 121
Case 18 A polycyclic rash in a patient with epilepsy......Page 129
Case 19 Flexural papules, thirst and polyuria......Page 136
Case 20 Facial plaques and fever......Page 142
Case 21 Generalized thickening of the skin following bone marrow transplantation......Page 149
Case 22 Pruritic plaques in pregnancy......Page 156
Case 23 Multiple painless ulcers in a traveller......Page 163
Case 24 A pigmented plaque on the knee......Page 169
Case 25 Photosensitivity with scarring......Page 175
Case 26 Swelling of the hands and generalized hyperpigmentation......Page 182
Case 27 Birthmarks and macrodactyly......Page 189
Case 28 Facial nodules, cough and breathlessness......Page 196
Case 29 A unilateral breast rash......Page 202
Case 30 Fever and a desquamating rash in an infant......Page 209
Case 31 A follicular eruption in a vegan......Page 215
Case 32 Erythroderma in a Jamaican man......Page 221
Case 33 An inflamed toe and a rash on the legs in an immunosuppressed patient......Page 227
Case 34 Periorbital erythema following chemotherapy......Page 234
Case 35 Nodules and plaques in a boy with progressive liver failure......Page 239
Case 36 A unilateral groin rash......Page 246
Case 37 Patches, plaques and lymphadenopathy......Page 252
Case 38 A plaque on the shin......Page 258
Case 39 A rash and numbness involving the right thumb......Page 264
Case 40 Widespread skin sloughing in a man with fits......Page 271
Case 41 A plaque on the chest......Page 280
Case 42 A polymorphic mucocutaneous eruption in a patient with lymphoma......Page 287
Case 43 Abdominal pain, fever and acral purpura......Page 297
Case 44 Papules on the buttocks......Page 304
Case 45 A non-healing crusted plaque in a child......Page 310
Case 46 A rash on the face, upper back and hands......Page 317
Case 47 A large vascular tumour in an HIV-positive man......Page 327
Case 48 Linear blisters and pigmentation in a baby girl......Page 333
Case 49 Gradual coarse wrinkling of the skin......Page 339
Case 50 Breathlessness and widespread cutaneous necrosis......Page 346
Index......Page 354