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Jean Blair, MD; Pradip Bhattacharjee, MD; Robert T. Brodell, MD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (Drs Blair and Brodell), Forum Health, Youngstown, Ohio (Dr Bhattacharjee), and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio (Drs Bhattacharjee and Brodell)

Arch Dermatol. 2003;139:1075-1080.

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REPORT OF A CASE

A 46-year-old white woman presented with a 2-week history of a slightly pruritic lesion on the flexor muscle of her right forearm. She also complained of occasionalbleeding from the lesion. On further inquiry, she described a history of 10 similar lesions, which had developed one at a time on various areas of her body over the preceding 5 years. Each lesion had completely resolved over a period of months, without any treatment. The patient had no history of contact with animals or plants of any type.

Physical examination revealed a 1.2-cm dome-shaped, erythematous, eroded plaque with a collarette of scale on the midflexor muscle of the right forearm (Figure 1). A shave biopsy specimen was obtained from the lesion and stained with hematoxylin-eosin (Figure 2 and Figure 3).

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