A 70-year-old man presented with advanced lepromatous leprosy of more than a decade duration. The main features shown are madarosis (loss of hair from outer parts of the eyebrows) and characteristic saddle nose (side profile). Among other features of LL which the patient have had are hand contractures and resorption of plalangeal bones.
A very interesting case with typical iris-like lesions involved the extensor surface of both forearms and wrist areas of 10 days duration in a 20-year-old female. She had no previous history of drug intake or preceding systemic or cutaneous infection.
A 35-year-old housewife presented with painful nodule with central superficial erosion and seems to be pus-containing on the dorsal surface of the thumb of 2 weeks duration. She gave history of contact with sheep’s head on cooking few days before the appearance of the lesion.
A 66-year-old man presented with a solitary horny digitate projection arose from an erythematous base on the upper part of the chest of six months duration. Biopsy of the lesion showed actinic keratosis at the base of the horn.
A 60-year-old diabetic man presented with asymptomatic, small, rounded, hyperpigmented atrophic lesions involved the shins of more than 15 years duration.
An 80-year-old man presented with an asymptomatic, dome-shaped, pinkish-red nodule with central crater filled with heaped-up keratin involved the leg of 10 months duration. It has been excised with a suitable safe margin and sent for HP examination which was consistent with KA.
Within 24-48 hours from the onset of scarlet fever the tongue has a white coating through which reddened, hypertrophied papillae project, giving the so-called white strawberry tongue appearance. By the fourth or fifth day the coating disappears, the tongue is bright red, and the red strawberry tongue remains. The presented case of a toddler with a classical white strawberry tongue appearance.
A 26-year-old male has had inflammatory papulopustular rash localized to the lower occipital scalp and upper part of the back of the neck complicated by scarring alopecia of three years duration. He has tried many therapeutic modalities which failed to improve or ameliorate his condition.
