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By Noah S. Scheinfeld, MD, JD

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Growths on the fingers
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Growths on the fingers

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Two patients present with growths on the fingers. The first patient, black woman aged 45 years, presents with papules on the outside of her pinkies that had been present since birth, had not grown and did not bother her. The second, is a man aged 40 years with a six-month history of a growth on the side of one middle finger. Can you differentiate between the two?

Vascular nodules and papules
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Vascular nodules and papules

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Two patients present with red lesions. A white infant aged 4 months presented with a three-month history of a red, verrucous nodule on his scalp, that grew from a small papule to a 3-cm nodule. A white man aged 50 years who had developed red papules on his legs, arms, chest and abdomen 20 years earlier, noticed that a group of the papules grew together to form a plaque. Can you differentiate between these two patients’ lesions?

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