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Tracy Campbell, MD; Vassilios A. Dimitropoulos, MD; Clarence Brown Jr, MD

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We report a case of eruptive unilateral angiokeratomas with no underlying vascular abnormality. To our knowledge, only 1 other case report of unilateral eruptive angiokeratomas has been reported, and that case was isolated to the scrotum with an underlying vascular defect.¹ Other reports of eruptive angiokeratomas associated with cerebral hemangiomas and trauma have been documented, but none of these cases were unilateral.^2-5

Report of a Case

A 51-year-old African American woman presented to our clinic with a 1-week history of eruptive lesions over her left hand. Physical examination revealed approximately 1 dozen 2- to 4-mm black papules on the dorsal and palmar surfaces of the left hand. These lesions were firm, nonblanchable, and nonpulsatile. The distribution could not be isolated to any particular dermatome. No axillary lymphadenopathy was present. The lesions were asymptomatic. New lesions continued to erupt daily. Two weeks after the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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