A 27-year-old female presented with an asymptomatic nodule on the left thigh. She reported a smaller pigmented lesion since birth, with significant growth in the last 5 years. The patient had no personal or family history of skin cancer. She was otherwise healthy and had no systemic symptoms. She was doing oral contraception and no other medications. Physical examination revealed a smooth nodul...

Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is an uncommon, fibrohistiocytic tumor of the skin that occurs due to actinic damage in the elderly (1). AFX rarely affects eyelid (2). It appears as solitary nodule that smaller than 2 cm (3). Boynton was the first to describe a case of AFX involving the eyelid in the literature (2). Aggresive recurrence was reported in few AFX cases, despite the benign nature of t...

A 34-year-old male came with complaints of multiple firms to hard nontender, nonitchy nodules, measuring 2 cm × 2 cm to 1 cm × 1.5 cm, present predominantly over the lower limbs. This condition started 5 years back as a single nodule over the thigh but gradually increased in number and size with time to involve both lower limbs. A differential diagnosis of cutaneous lymphoma and dermatofibroma ...

DISCUSSION Dermatofibromas are benign cutaneous lesions. ey are most commonly seen in adults and favor the lower legs. Lesions are typically reddish brown, smooth-surfaced, domed-shaped papules that range in diameter from several millimeters to 2 centimeters. With time, some lesions will flatten. When flat lesions are pinched they may become depressed downward, which is called the “dimple sign...