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Blue Facial Nodules
Robert S. Dawe, MRCP;
Sheena Russell, MRCP;
Graham Lowe, FRCP
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland
Arch Dermatol. 1998;134:861-866.
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REPORT OF A CASE
A 59-year-old woman was referred with a 6-month history of blue-gray lesions on her cheeks and chin. The lesions were not itchy or painful but caused her social embarrassment. She gave a history of phototherapy for acne as a teenager. She was otherwise well, apart from mild rheumatoid arthritis requiring only occasional simple analgesics, and had no family history of a similar skin problem. On examination, she had multiple 2- to 6-mm-diameter, firm, blue-gray nodules on her cheeks and chin (Figure 1 and Figure 2). There was also some scarring resulting from previous acne.
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Figure 1.
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Figure 2.
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A hematoxylin-eosin–stained section of a diagnostic biopsy specimen of one of the nodules is shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4.
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Figure 3.
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Figure 4.
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What is your diagnosis?
When the patient was first assessed, what drug did she . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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