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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

prurigo nodularis

Body Site

hand

Age

60 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

grouped, clustered

Color

skin color

Morphology

nodule

Pattern

symmetric acral (centripetal - extremity predominant)

Comments

This 60-year-old man with a history of dry skin and eczema, developed chronic minimally scaly and crusted nodules on the tops of his hands. A skin biopsy showed a spongiotic epidermis with dramatic thickening typical of prurigo nodules.

Description

symmetric grouped 1 cm skin colored nodules with some scaling and crusting

Categories

lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) papulosquamous eruptions

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8/29/2010 21:23:30

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