First look to the presented image may give you an impression that this is a case of nevus comedonicus. However, this boy unfortunately had been subjected to shrapnels’ (shells) injury caused by a nearby bomb’s blast two months prior to the presentation. On close examination many black dots and spots intermingled with many atrophic scars confined to one side of the anterior trunk.
A teenager male suffered frequent episodes of painful and pruritic, dusky-red, edematous plaques involved the distal parts of the feet during last three winter seasons. Other parts of the body were not affected and each episode lasts about 3-4 weeks and spontaneously disappears.
A 26-year-old female presented with an asymptomatic but cosmetically disfiguring reticulate dusky erythema with slight hyperpigmentation involved the dorsum of the hands. The patient had a habit of sitting close to a stove (heater) in winter months.
A 20-year-old male had a few grouped lesions of molluscum contagiosum on the neck of 3-4 weeks duration. The lesions had been removed aggressively through electrocautery by an unexperienced medical substaff person. Few weeks later a large pinkish-red, ugly-looking scar appeared at site of cautery.
A 67-year-old man presented with an about 2.5 cm long asymptomatic cutaneous horn arouse from a hyperkeratotic base involved the middle part of the auricle of many years duration. Excisional biopsy showed actinic keratosis at the base of the horn.
A 70-year-old man suffered a chronic, severely pruritic, scaly, lichenified dermatitis on the photo-exposed areas specially the face and the dorsa of the hands of many years duration.
A young adult female has used to sit very close to fireplace with her back reclining toward the source of heat during winter season. She presented with reticulate hyperoigmentation on her back.
A 22-year-old female presented with multiple, scaly, annular plaques with slightly elevated keratotic rims with central grooves on the central part of the face especially on the nose of three months duration. Cornoid lamella was evident on histological examination of skin biopsy.
