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Background: Pityriasis versicolor is a common superficial fungal infection which is usually easily diagnosed with Wood's lamp examination and 10% potassium hydroxide mount. However, these modalities have varying sensitivity and specificity. Aims and Objectives: This study aimed to ascertain the dermoscopic features of pityriasis versicolor lesionally as well as perilesionally using dermoscopy, a non-invasive diagnostic tool. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, consecutive patients with pityriasis versicolor underwent dermoscopic examination of lesions and 2 cm around lesions, noting lesional and perilesional features. Semi-objective grading of pigmentation, scaling, and vascularity was done. The association between parameters was determined using heat maps and violin plots with Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Lesional analysis was performed since lesions at different sides showed disparate features. Results: A total of 353 lesions from 233 patients (males = 150/233; 64.38% and females = 84/234; 36.05%) were studied. On lesional dermoscopy, pigmentary and scaling abnormalities were universal. 258/353 (73.1%) of lesions showed vascular abnormalities. Perilesionally, scaling (223/353; 63.17%) followed by pigmentation (205/353; 58.07%) and vascular changes (111/353; 31.44%) constituted the most common dermoscopic abnormalities and were noted in 294/353 (83.29%) of lesions overall. Increased disease duration corresponded with increased intensity of perilesional pigmentation alterations, perifollicular (P = 0.04), and follicular scales (P = 0.02). Conclusion: Awareness of dermoscopic features could improve the diagnostic accuracy in doubtful cases of pityriasis versicolor. Vascular findings are common and may point to an underlying inflammatory pathogenesis. Perilesional findings constitute early dermoscopic features of pityriasis versicolor and hint at the need for treatment beyond the confines of lesions. Larger follow-up studies and research into immunopathogenesis may be of further benefit.
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Fibroepithelioma of Pinkus and nodular basal cell carcinoma (BCC) are different morphological variants of BCC. It is very rare to see both the variants together in a single lesion. Here we report a case of a 56-year-old female who presented with a nodule on the trunk, which on biopsy showed features of both nodular BCC and fibroepithelioma of Pinkus.
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Eccrine spiradenoma (ES) is an uncommon well-differentiated benign tumor originating from the sweat glands. It usually occurs as a single lesion in adults. Multiple ES in a linear or zosteriform distribution are rare. Spiradenomacarcinoma is an extremely rare tumor, which develops in an existing benign spiradenoma of several years of duration. We report a case of a 23-year-old- female patient with multiple spiradenomas arranged in zosteriform pattern and malignant transformation occurred in one of the lesions over a period of 10 years.