Case Reports

Diagnosis at a Glance

A 56-year-old woman presents to the urgent care center with an ovoidshaped lump on the medial band of the plantar fascia; a 77-year-old man presents with a blistering rash on his arms and legs.


 

Dr Samimi is a podiatric dermatology fellow at St Luke’s Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Dr Schleicher, editor of “Diagnosis at a Glance,” is director of the DermDOX Center in Hazleton, Pennsylvania; a clinical instructor of dermatology at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; an associate professor of medicine at the Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and an adjunct assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Ms Hammer is enrolled in the physician assistant program at Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania.

CASE 1

A 56-year-old woman presented to the urgent care center with a lump in the arch of her right foot which she stated had been slowly progressing in size over the past several months. She further noted experiencing pain on ambulation that had been unresponsive to over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

Physical examination of the affected foot revealed an ovoid-shaped lump on the medial band of the plantar fascia measuring approximately 1.5 cm x 0.8 cm. Moderate palpation elicited pain. There was no surrounding erythema or edema, and the lump was nonmobile, adherent to the fascia, and accentuated on dorsiflexion of the hallux.

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CASE 2

A 77-year-old man presented to the urgent care center with a 3-week history of a blistering, intensely pruritic, and sometimes burning rash bilaterally on the extensor surfaces of his arms and legs, which he correlated to recent beer intake. His past medical history was positive for decades of similar outbreaks that had been controlled with oral dapsone, which he recently discontinued for unspecified reasons. He denied any gastrointestinal complaint. Physical examination revealed scattered vesicles and bullae of the affected areas; no similar lesions were noted elsewhere.

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