While cutaneous disorders are typically classified into primary and secondary skin lesions, there are some disorders that fall into a specialized lesion category. Primary skin lesions ...

Secondary skin lesions are lesions that have changed from their primary appearance due to natural evolution, scratching, secondary infection, or treatment.

Alabama rot is a rare but potentially fatal disease that affects dogs. Also known as Cutaneous and Renal Glomerular ...

Among patients referred by non-dermatologists to dermatologists for evaluation of skin lesions suspected of being malignant, only apparently one-fifth were found to be cancerous, although ...

Your brain and skin are interconnected—and when a disorder affects both, treatment must involve a multidisciplinary approach.

Two-Step Irradiance OK for Superficial Skin Cancer Lesions Men and women with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) are at modestly greater risk of secondary cancers at other sites ...

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with a history of cutaneous lupus erythematosus are more likely to have high ...

Dupixent (dupilumab) is the first biologic to significantly reduce itch and skin lesions in phase 3 trial for prurigo nodularis, demonstrating the role of type 2 inflammation in this disease.

Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO Chilblains, or pernio, occurs when small, itchy, swollen lesions form on the skin ...

Biopsy shows skin lesions removed from President Joe Biden's chest were basal cell carcinoma, a common but relatively harmless skin cancer.

Prurigo nodularis is a chronic type 2 inflammatory skin disease that causes extreme itch and skin lesions. An additional trial in the LIBERTY-PN PRIME clinical program, PRIME, is fully enrolled.

Secondary skin lesions Atrophy: Atrophy is a skin depression resulting from thinned epidermis and/or dermis. Topical-steroid-induced striae (striae distensae).