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Black-crusted erosion and surrounding hypopigmented patch on elbow due to yaws infection in a 5-year-old girl from the Philippines

The skin lesions were of an undetermined duration and were pruritic. Skin findings included (1) numerous small, whitish, scaly macules on the shoulders and arms; (2) a single, black-crusted erosion on the right elbow area; and (3) multiple, atrophic oval scars clustered on the knees. (Source: Dofitas BL, Kalim SP, Toledo CB, Richardus JH. Yaws in the Philippines: first reported cases since the 1970s. Infect Dis Poverty 2020;9[1]:1. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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