Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: September 23, 2025
Dermatology is a rapidly growing, highly competitive specialty with patients that can be served via private practice, academic medicine, hybrid set...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: October 12, 2023
The diagnosis of this patient’s inflammatory condition required us to dig deeper.
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: April 28, 2022
Trichodysplasia spinulosa (TS) is a rare skin disease caused by primary TS-associated polyomavirus infecting follicular keratinocytes in immunocomp...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: September 23, 2021
My co-authors and I appreciate the excellent comments regarding our Photo Rounds column, “Foot rash and joint pain,” and would like to provide some...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: July 20, 2021
This case reminded us that not every moist, erythematous, crusting eruption is purely infectious.
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: June 18, 2021
An untreated infection led to a series of unusual signs and symptoms that included difficulty walking.
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: January 5, 2021
Dermatology residency programs can influence medical students and resident dermatologists to provide care in rural and geographically isolated area...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: October 7, 2019
We had one clue that helped explain the ulcers in the patient’s mouth: He had an accompanying low-grade fever.
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: January 28, 2019
The patient presented with persistent hyperpigmentation that was unaffected by regular face washing. A simple test both diagnosed and treated the c...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: May 30, 2018
Tinea incognito occurs when superficial fungal infections fail to demonstrate typical clinical features in the setting of immune suppression caused...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: November 2, 2016
Sneddon syndrome (SS) is a rare condition and the diagnosis is made only when other more common disease entities have been excluded. Common manifes...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: August 31, 2016
Nevus spilus (NS), also known as speckled lentiginous nevus, is characterized by background café au lait–like lentiginous melanocytic hyperpl...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: March 8, 2016
Porokeratosis of Mibelli (PM) is a rare condition with the potential for malignant transformation that presents a clinical and pathologic diagnosti...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: February 16, 2016
The Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program was designed to assess the learning environment in residencies and fellowships accredited b...
Article
- Author:
- Robert T. Brodell, MD
Publish date: August 27, 2015
Our patient thought she had a case of “recurrent shingles,” but the location of the blisters and the frequency with which they appeared told a diff...
