As tropical countries become common travelers' destinations, more and more returning travelers are expected to present with cutaneous lesions secondary to myiasis. The skin lesion starts as a small ...

Symmetrical—lesions appear to be distributed in a similar arrangement on differing sides of the body (Figure 3, see slideshow) Once the configuration and distribution has been determined, the next ...

Biopsy of our patient’s nodule demonstrated pyogenic granuloma (also known as lobular capillary hemangioma), an aggregation of blood vessels that forms a papule or nodule. The etiology is unknown. As ...

Learn about nodular melanoma symptoms, diagnosis and treatments like immunotherapy to prepare for important conversations with your oncologist. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that begins in ...

Myiasis is the invasion of a human or other domesticated vertebrate animal by fly larvae of the order Diptera. [1,2] Despite the presence of many species, the two common flies that affect returning ...