Vitiligo

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History

          A 20-year-old female presented with asymptomatic, depigmented patches variable in sizes and shapes involved the trunk of two years duration. Many foci of resumed pigmentation had been induced through treatment with topical psoralen plus sun (UVL) exposure.

Cretinism

History

          A 3-year-old boy presented with mental retardation, short stature, alopecia, sparse hair (eyebrows), wide-set eyes, periorbital puffiness, wide broad nose, thick lower lip and dry cool and pale skin. Thyroid hormones levels were very low.

Supernumerary thumb

History

          A 21-year-old female has an extra-thumb since birth. The supernumerary thumb is well formed and covered with well developed nail plate. She had no associated cardiovascular, musculoskeletal or neurological developmental defects.

Multiple Basal Cell Carcinomas in XP

History

        A 13-year-old boy with xeroderma pigmentosum presented with photosensitivity, diffuse facial freckling, photophobia and multiple ulcerative Basal Cell Carcinomas. His parents are consanguineous and three of his brothers and sisters were also having XP.

Colloid milium

History

          An 11-year-old boy presented with asymptomatic, multiple, translucent, skin-colored to yellowish 1-3 mm in diameter papules on both cheeks and nose of many years duration. Family history of similar condition (juvenile colloid milium) was negative.

Acral fibrokeratoma

History

         A 32-year-old man presented with an asymptomatic, solitary, keratotic papule surrounded by an elevated skin collar on the dorsal surface of the proximal interphalangeal joint of the middle finger of more than one year. duration. AcraI fibrokeratoma, often called acquired digital fibrokeratoma, is characterized by a pinkish, hyperkeratotic, horn-like projection occurring on a finger, toe, or palm. The projection usually emerges from a collarette of elevated skin. The average age of the patient is 40. The lesion resembles a rudimentary supernumerary digit, cutaneous horn, or a neuroma. Simple surgical excision or laser ablation at the level of the skin surface is effective.

Common, interesting and rare dermatoses presented in simple way by Dr. Nameer Al-Sudany