Shah H, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220470 Description A 23-year-old woman was referred to the dermatology department through the 2-week wait pathway under clinical suspicion of malignant melanoma in the umbilical region. She presented with a 4-month history of a painful and intermittently bleeding nodule on the umbilical area. The lesion was more prominent during her menstru...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate the clinicopathological, immunophenotypical, and molecular characteristics of cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia presenting as a solitary facial nodule. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING University dermatology department. PATIENTS Three patients with a solitary facial nodule were studied clinically, histologically, immunophenotypically, and molecularly for T-cell rece...

Neurothekeoma is a rare cutaneous neoplasm, occurring as a cutaneous papule or nodule on the face, shoulders, and upper extremities. Neurothekeoma has been subclassified as either the myxoid, cellular, or mixed type, depending on the amount of myxoid matrix and on immunohistochemical analysis. We observed a clinical case with conflicting histopathological and immunohistochemical findings. In th...

PEN also known as ‘solitary circumscribed neuroma’ is an uncommon, sporadic, cutaneous, benign, intraneural tumor, which usually presents as asymptomatic, solitary or multiple, firm, rubbery, skin-coloured or pink, papule or nodule, commonly localized on the face or close to a muco-cutaneous junction in middle aged adults with equal sex preponderance [1]. It was first described by Reed et al in...

Cutaneous metastases from signet ring cell gastric carcinoma are uncommon. A 35-year-old male presented with a three-month history of multiple asymptomatic, indurated, pinky colored nodules of 2.5 to 4 cm in diameter, without any local and general symptoms. Nodule biopsy revealed an infiltrating signet ring cell carcinoma. Gastroscopy and biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of gastric carcinoma with...

Atypical fibrous histiocytoma is a distinctive variant of cutaneous fibrous histiocytoma, which is often mistaken histologically for sarcoma and which have a tendency to recur locally and a capacity to metastasize, although very rarely. We report a new case of atypical cutaneous fibrous histiocytoma in a 31-year-old man who presented with a recurrent polypoid nodule on the abdominal wall. The d...

INTRODUCTION Orf and milker's nodule are zoonotic cutaneous diseases generated by parapoxviruses. Contribution of dermoscopy to the diagnosis of these diseases has not been studied in the medical literature as to our knowledge. AIM To investigate whether dermoscopy is a valuable diagnostic tool in orf and milker's nodule diagnosis or not. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this study, macroscopic and ...

Received April 11, 2011, Revised June 30, 2011, Accepted for publication June 30, 2011 Corresponding author: Joung Soo Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, 153 Gyeongchun-ro, Guri 471-701, Korea. Tel: 82-31-560-2285, Fax: 82-31-557-4872, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Att...