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Jeannette L. Hudgens, BS; Shelley L. Fleet, MD; Loretta S. Davis, MD
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta

Arch Dermatol. 2006;142:1351-1356.

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REPORT OF A CASE

A 34-year-old healthy white man presented with an enlarging lesion on his shoulder. He had a 2- to 3-year history of a nontender, purple nodule that would occasionally swell and pulsate for 1 to 2 weeks and then regress. He had not recently traumatized the lesion.

Physical examination showed a 1.5-cm, purple, compressible nodule with a purpuric rim on the patient's shoulder (Figure 1). The lesion was excised 2 weeks after partially regressing (Figure 2) and submitted for histologic analysis (Figure 3 and Figure 4).

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What is your diagnosis?

SECTION EDITOR: MICHAEL E. MING, MD

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