Clinical Quiz
The Hong Kong Practitioner VOLUME 28 / October 2006

A man presenting with multiple scrotal nodules
Kuen-kong Lo ¿c°®­è


A monthly clinical quiz is published in The Hong Kong Practitioner. Readers are invited to participate and a prize draw, sponsored by Pfizer Corporation Hong Kong Limited, will be undertaken among the successful entries each month. For entry into the draw, simply answer the question, fill in the reply slip and return it to the College by 27 November, 2006. Each reader is allowed to submit one entry only. The name of the winner and the answer will be published in the November issue.

Clinical history:

A 70-year old retired worker had more than ten years of skin rash followed up in a skin clinic for management. He accidentally discovered multiple nodules over his scrotum in the past one year and became anxious because he was worrying about skin cancer or infection spreading to other regions. Occasionally, there was some discharge from these lesions and they were itchy to various degrees in the past one year. However, there was no generalized pruritus. There had been one episode of painful swelling in one of these lesions two months ago which responded rapidly to a course of systemic cloxacillin.


The slide and the question were prepared by:
Dr Kuen-kong Lo,
FRCP (Edin, Glas), FHKCP, FHKAM(Med)
Consultant Dermatologist-in-Charge,

Social Hygiene Service, PHSB, CHP, DH.

What is the most likely diagnosis?

A. Angiokeratoma
B. Bowenoid papulosis
C. Calcinosis
D. Epidermoid cyst

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