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sQuiz your knowledge! Multiple papules on the limbs of an HIV patient Volume 30, numéro 4, July-August 2020

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Auteurs
1 Department of Dermatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2 Department of Pathology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal

A 59-year-old HIV-infected man presented with multiple, asymptomatic lesions, localized on the limbs, which had appeared three years ago. Physical examination revealed several red-brownish, polymorphic, flat-topped papules, localized on the upper and lower limbs (figure 1A, B). Histopathological examination showed acanthosis with hypergranulosis and intraepidermal proliferation of enlarged, mildly atypical keratinocytes with bluish-grey cytoplasm.What is your diagnosis?Epidermodysplasia verruciformisEpidermodysplasia [...]