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 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Pigmented_Bcc_1_020516 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL | Category: | neoplasm, malignant / hyperpigmentation | ||
| Body Site: | face / nose | Age: | 69 years | ||
| Contributor: | Khalid Al Hawsawi, MD | ||||
| Description: | black irregularly shaped but well demarcated plaque | ||||
| Comments: | This 69 year old man developed a gradually enlarging black plaque on the left side of the nose extending onto the medial canthus. A skin biopsy showed a basal cell carcinoma. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | alopecia_1_020516 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | ALOPECIA, ANDROGENETIC | Category: | hair disorders | ||
| Body Site: | scalp | Age: | 38 years | ||
| Contributor: | Khalid Al Hawsawi, MD | ||||
| Description: | symmetric occipital hair loss | ||||
| Comments: | This 38 year old man experienced progressive occipital hair loss beginning in his early 20's. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | collodion_1_020506 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | COLLODIAN BABY | Category: | neonatal dermatology / papulosquamous eruptions / genodermatosis/genetic disorder | ||
| Body Site: | total body | Age: | 7 days | ||
| Contributor: | Khalid Al Hawsawi, MD | ||||
| Description: | generalized thick parchment like skin, ectropion, eclabium | ||||
| Comments: | At birth this infant was covered in a collodion membrane. Note the skin pulling back the eye lids and lips causing an ectropion and eclabium. As the membrane desquamated over the first month of life coarse thick scales formed typical of lamellar ichthyosis. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Telogen_effluvium_1_020505 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | ALOPECIA / TELOGEN EFFLUVIUM | Category: | hair disorders | ||
| Body Site: | scalp | Age: | 28 years | ||
| Contributor: | Khalid Al Hawsawi, MD | ||||
| Description: | diffuse thinning of scalp hair with normal appearing scalp | ||||
| Comments: | This 28 year old woman developed diffuse thinning of the hair on her scalp 2 months post partum. The hair loss stabilized and over 6 months resolved typical of the course of telogen effluvium. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Trichoptillosis_1_020505 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | ALOPECIA, TRAUMATIC / TRICHOPTILOSIS / FRAGILITAS CRINIUM | Category: | hair disorders / demonstration | ||
| Body Site: | scalp | Age: | 19 years | ||
| Contributor: | Khalid Al Hawsawi, MD | ||||
| Description: | longitudinal splitting of the hair shaft along the long axis | ||||
| Comments: | A young woman complained of dry lusterless hair and, specifically, "split ends." Examination of multiple hair shafts demonstrated splitting of the hair shaft along the long axis giving a frayed appearance. This finding results from recurrent mechanical, thermal, and chemical trauma to the the hair and improves with a switch to gentle hair grooming. | ||||
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