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Images in Dermatology
March 22, 2023

Carcinoma en Cuirasse

Author Affiliations
  • 1Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2Department of Dermatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
JAMA Dermatol. 2023;159(5):555-556. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2022.5934

A woman in her 70s presented for evaluation of intensely pruritic lesions on her anterior trunk. The lesions first began 1 year before presentation and were gradually increasing in size. She was initially treated by her primary care clinician with selenium sulfide, topical terbinafine, and hydroxyzine for a presumed fungal infection, but the lesions did not improve and her pruritus remained. She denied other symptoms. The patient had a remote history of infiltrating ductal breast carcinoma, which was diagnosed in 2007. At that time, she was treated with a bilateral mastectomy and a course of tamoxifen, but she was lost to follow-up.

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