Gottron papules are red or violet bumps caused by dermatomyositis, an inflammatory muscle disease. The treatment of Gottron's papules requires steroids, but other medications are often used to reduce ...

Oral melanoma is a rare cancer that forms in the mucosal tissues of the mouth. There may be no early symptoms, or a person may notice an area that is black or brown, with areas of gray, red, purple, ...

What Are Pearly Penile Papules? Pearly penile papules are small bumps made of fibrous tissue and blood vessels that appear on the head or shaft of the penis. They are not itchy or painful and ...

Abstract: This work presents an automatic system for the semantic segmentation of cutaneous macules using an architecture based on an Autoencoder. The dataset used was obtained from Kaggle and ...

Dr. Ann M. Murray: A 5-year-old boy was admitted to this hospital because of fever and rash. The patient had been well until 3 days before the current presentation, when his mother noticed that he was ...

Reticulate acropigmentation of Kitamura (RAK) predominantly affects East Asian populations, though isolated cases and familial occurrences have been reported globally. Japanese researchers Kitamura et ...

Abstract: Automatic diagnostics of skin lesions is an area of high interest. Identification of primary morphology in skin lesions could be a first step of an automatic diagnostics tool. We propose an ...

PHYSIOLOGIC volar melanotic macules (P-VMM) are underexplored, particularly in individuals with skin of color. Historically, trauma has been suggested as a possible cause, but limited research has ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 91.8% of the patients with physiologic volar melanotic macules were Black. Women vs. men were also more likely ...

Psoriasis causes your body to make new skin cells too quickly. These cells tend to pile up and form spots, bumps, and thick, scaly patches. Skin cancer, like all cancer, is the uncontrolled growth of ...

The patient was a 10-year-old child who complained of smooth pink papules that had been present on eight different joints of both hands for several months. The papules, which broke the normal skin ...

There are multiple types of skin lesions, which medical experts classify using a specialized language. Descriptions include the type of lesion, configuration, texture, location, distribution, and ...