Dermatology Quiz
Generalised itching with wrist lesions
A man presents with a six-week history of intense generalised pruritus sparing his face that is worse at night.
Muscle weakness with knuckle erythema
A boy develops facial rash, periungual erythema and pruritic erythematous patches on his knuckles and interphalangeal joints. General malaise and proximal muscle weakness was also present.
Pearly papules on the thighs
A boy has developed pearly, umbilicated, firm papules on his thighs.
Pigmented rash localised to the groins
A man presents with an irritable, pigmented rash confined to his groins and perineal area.
Tufted hairs wrapped in asbestos-like scale
A woman presents with adherent asbestos-like scale bound around tufts of hair within her scalp.
Acral blisters with arthritis
Over two months, a woman developed nonpruritic blisters and fragile skin on the dorsal surfaces of her hands. These developed after commencing naproxen for arthritis.
Tense blisters with IgA deposits
A woman, post cardiac surgery, develops large blisters from urticarial lesions on her palms and soles after receiving vancomycin and ciprofloxacin for a postsurgical wound infection.
Itchy blisters on exposed skin
A woman presents with a two-week history of pruritic blisters, at various stages of evolution, over her limbs.
An inflamed solar lentigo
A 65-year-old man presents with a recently inflamed, dusky red-brown lesion on his chest that displayed multiple freckles and solar lentigines.
A persistent red papule on the thigh
A 54-year-old man presented with a longstanding, symmetrical, small, red papule on his thigh that had not grown and was asymptomatic.