by Claudia Paoletto | Dec 10, 2019 | Seborrheic Dermatitis
About 2-5% of the population has some form of Seborrheic Dermatits, which is more commonly known as dandruff and cradle cap. It is a chronic, superficial, inflammatory disease with a predilection for the scalp, eyebrows, eyelids, nasolabial creases, lips, ears,...
by Claudia Paoletto | Dec 5, 2019 | Syringoma
Syringomas are harmless sweat gland tumors that are most commonly found in clusters around the lower eyelids and upper cheeks but they may also be found elsewhere in the face, armpits, umbilicus, abdomen, upper chest, penis and vulva. They present as small papules...
by Claudia Paoletto | Nov 26, 2019 | Tumbu Myiasis
The Walter Reed Files… I was asked one weekend to come in to see a patient at Walter Reed. He was a 29 year-old caucasian male who developed a purulent eruption along his left flank. His was on assignment in West Africa in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He...
by Claudia Paoletto | Nov 25, 2019 | Digital Mucous Cyst
Hyde first described digital mucous cyst (DMC) in 1882. In 1893, Ledderhose suggested that ganglia arose spontaneously in the subcutaneous tissue. Ritschel, in 1895, proposed the earliest formulation of the theory that mucoid degeneration may be responsible for...
by Claudia Paoletto | Nov 20, 2019 | Dermatofibroma
Dermatofibroma (DF) also referred to as Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma, is a very common skin lesion, described as usually a single round or ovoid papule or nodule, about 0.5 to 1.0 cm in diameter, often reddish brown but sometimes has a yellowish hue. On palpation...
