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sQUIZ your knowledge! A painless ulcer on the nose Volume 32, issue 1, January-February 2022

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Authors
1 Resident of Department of Dermatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2 Department of Anatomopathology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
a These authors contributed equally

A 47-year-old man with no family or personal history of interest was evaluated due to a two-month-old painless ulcer on the dorsum of the nose, with well-defined, regular, non-elevated borders and a central haemorrhagic crust, measuring 2 cm (figure 1A, B). According to the patient, the lesion started as a pustule of 5 mm. He had used oral and topical antibiotics without improvement. He did not present with other clinical symptoms and denied any history of international travel. Histopathological [...]