Make the Diagnosis: Is This a Nothing Burger — or Something Much Worse?
Presentation A 21-year-old man visited his doctor concerned about an asymptomatic blackish lesion that had developed on his left heel, 1 week prior soon after a college basketball tournament. On examination, a stippled, deeply violaceous, and blackish patch with overlying scale was seen on his plantar heel. He had no history of dermatological disease. Can […]
Why the Atypical Symptoms in the Latest Monkeypox Cases?
In mid-May, a young man appeared at a hospital in Montreal with a single lesion on his genitals. About a week earlier he had sexual contact with someone who tested positive for monkeypox. Over the next several days, his lesion grew in size and more lesions appeared, but they weren’t painful. He had no fever […]