Published in Aging and Elder Health Week, February 13th, 2005
"A 23-year-old agricultural worker presented with multiple nodulo-ulcerative lesions in a linear pattern along the right upper extremity. Two months prior, he had sustained an injury at the dorsal aspect of the base of the right thumb while working in the field.
"A nodular lesion appeared at the site after 3 weeks and subsequently suppurated, with discharge of purulent material and ulcer formation. Over the past 1 month, he had developed several other similar lesions along the right forearm up to the elbow," scientists in India report.
The patient...
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