Skin disorders affecting the feet
Keywords:
skin disorders, feet, inflammatory disorders, palmoplantar keratodermas, ainhum, infections, neoplastic disorders
Abstract
Skin disorders of the feet can affect the glabrous skin on the dorsal aspects, or the thick skin on the plantar aspects, thereof, or both. Some can affect one foot, and others both of them. These diseases can be inflammatory, genetically inherited, infectious and neoplastic in origin. It is important to identify them and to start treatment early. If not treated, some may lead to severe pain on walking, the inability to wear shoes, and amputation with serious disability.
- Figure 1: Chronic eczema on feet
- Figure 2: Contact dermatitis due to leather shoes
- Figure 3: Keratoderma blenorrhagicum in a patient with Reiter’s syndrome
- Figure 4: Severe disabling plantar keratoderma
- Figure 5: Plantar keratoderma in a patient with pachyonychia congenita
- Figure 6: Tinea pedis with maceration in the web spaces
- Figure 7: Plantar warts, note pin-point bleeding
- Figure 8: Eumycetoma of the left foot with sinuses draining black granules
- Figure 9: Actinomycetoma of the right foot with sinuses draining yellowish granules
- Figure 10: Pitted keratolysis
- Figure 11: Cutaneous larva migrans, note the wandering, serpentine pattern
- Figure 12: Acral lentigenous melanoma on the sole of foot
- Figure 13: Extensive Kaposi sarcoma, with lymphoedema and multiple nodules
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