A 59-Year-Old with a Painful Finger Skin Lesion

A 59-Year-Old with a Painful Finger Skin Lesion

Click Here to download the article PDF A 59-year-old woman presents with a painful skin lesion near her fingernail which has developed over the past week. She reports a history of advanced non-small cell lung cancer, for which she was recently started on erlotinib. On examination you observe a glistening, hemorrhagic papule at the lateral nail fold with surrounding erythema and edema. The patient denies trauma or exposure to skin irritants. View the image taken …

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