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Residents’corner April 2014. sQUIZ your knowledge!: Multiple nodular lesions on the leg Volume 24, issue 2, March-April 2014

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Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, Division of Dermatology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

A 71-year-old man was referred to our clinic with a 4-year history of progressive lymphedema and multiple nodular lesions of the right leg (figure 1). His medical history was significant for essential hypertension and recurrent genital herpes. The patient reported no history of trauma, surgery or radiation and no travel outside of Italy. Histological exam revealed hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis and acanthosis of the epidermis, loss of dermal papillae, fibrosis of the dermis and subcutaneous tissues [...]