We read the article by Dr. Blaschko et al. with interest (1). They reported a 67 year-old diabetic male with persistent leukocytosis despite appropriate antibiotic treatment for pneumonia. After computed tomography (CT) evaluation, a 3.5 centimeter rim enhancing fluid collection at the level of his bulbar urethra was noticed. In the next step, under the guidance of transrectal ultrasonography, ...

Linear cutaneous lupus erythematosus (LCLE) is rare. The LCLE was proposed by Abe et al. [1] for discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) with a linear configuration in 1988. It occurs mainly in children and young adults. Lesions appear as linear unilateral erythematous plaques following the Blaschko lines and are observed most frequently on the face, although the neck, trunk and extremities may also ...

A 32-year-old woman had several brownish and pruritic lesions over her left buttock and leg that had been present since she was 12 years old. She observed a progressive increase in size and number of the lesions, with increased sweating on and around them. Examination revealed several brownish, irregular nodules, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, and firm to palpation, along the lower left limb and followi...

Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal naevus (ILVEN) is a rare congenital disease characterised by Blaschko-linear erythematous scaly skin. It highly pruritic, disfiguring, and notoriously treatment-resistant. The genetic basis heterogeneous: causes so far established are single case of GJA1- two CARD14- mosaicism. However, clinical overlap with the skin lesions CHILD syndrome led us to hypot...