Robert P. Blereau, MD

March 28, 2012

These innocuous lesions of the outer ear may arise spontaneously or after trauma or surgery. Both auricular seroma and pyogenic granuloma usually resolve satisfactorily after minor surgery, though they may recur.

March 28, 2012

Diagnostic challenge: Two case reports of easily treated and innocuous causes of lesions in the outer ear. Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis is associated with long cellphone use. Verruca vulgaris is caused, like all other warts, by human papillomavirus.

March 12, 2012

This rounded 0.5-cm ulcerated lesion with a slightly raised border between the helix and the antihelix had been present on an 85-year-old man’s ear for an unknown period.

October 29, 2011

June 30, 2011

An 87-year-old man experienced a scratchy throat and difficulty speaking, which cleared after taking over-the-counter throat lozenges.

June 16, 2011

Acanthosis nigricans is a nonspecific increase of the thickness of the prickle cell layer of the skin and most commonly seen in obese persons.

June 01, 2011

Shortly after awakening, a 17-year-old man experienced acute onset of severe pubic area pain.

May 27, 2011

The nasal cellulitis that affects this 39-year-old woman began as right intranasal folliculitis.

June 02, 2008

A 23-year-old man's right chest shows a common congenital muscle anomaly-partial absence of the pectoralis major muscle. The abnormality was noted during a routine preemployment physical examination. The clavicular origin seemed to be intact. There was no apparent decrease in shoulder internal rotation or adduction strength, and the patient had not noticed any shoulder weakness or limitation in motion.

October 01, 2007

An 89-year-old man reported that this lesion began developing on his left forearm 11 days earlier. It is a keratoacanthoma, a rapidly growing but benign neoplasm that occurs predominantly on the extensor surfaces of the hands and forearms of white men over age 50.