Eve J. Lowenstein, MD, PhD

Rash began with one lesion followed by tender, disseminated eruption; fevers spiked to 102°F. Test your visual diagnostic skills. 

Eyelid bruising was observed on a 64-year-old woman during routine skin cancer follow-up. She denied trauma or pain. What does this look like to you? 

How would you approach diagnosis of this widespread, nonpruritic rash? Lab work? Skin tests? Or will history and physical findings suffice?

Urticarial wet plaque, smaller pink urticarial lesions on the temple and eyelid, eyelid edema, no vesicles or pain. What's your diagnosis?

Find out what you've learned after reading this month's Special Report articles on nonmelanoma lesions you may see in primary care practice.

The solitary, keratotic lesion has grown quickly over one month. Infection? Neoplasia? What else is in your differential diagnosis?

Actinic keratosis and squamous cell carcinoma often are clinically indistinguishable. Get tips on what to look for and how to treat.

An 82-year-old woman presents for evaluation of an ear lesion--and receives a complete skin exam. Can you identify the 3 other lesions found?

What is this 6-mm shiny nodule on the face of a fair-skinned woman with moderate-to-severe photo damage?

Primary care physicians will see many patients with early signs of nonmelanoma skin cancers. Test your visual diagnostic skills in this series.

An elderly obese female presents with abdominal bruising following a motor vehicle accident. Can you ID the cause?

Disruption in the epidermal barrier creates susceptibility to bacterial and viral colonization that can range in severity from benign to dermatologic emergency.

When in the Caribbean, why not get a tattoo? This man could now tell you exactly why to resist the vacation temptation.

An 89-year-old woman is seen for an erosion on the frontal area of the scalp. History is positive for actinic keratosis. What's your Dx?

The 89-year-old has used topical mupirocin twice daily for several weeks without improvement. Examine the images. What's your diagnosis?

The patient says the incidental finding appeared in adulthood and has been stable for years. Can you identify this reticulated erythema?

With the recent obesity epidemic, cases of abdominal lipodermatosclerosis are increasingly observed.

What’s the underlying cause of current cellulitis in this morbidly obese man?

Texting without gloves while sitting on a ski lift explains the onset of this rash in a patient with a long history of widespread psoriasis.

This woman was snowboarding over a very cold weekend and developed a pustular rash at night after her activities.

You might not think of sarcoidosis in this patient’s case, but that’s the point. Here: teaching points about a disease not to be missed.