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Lupus erythematosus is an inflammatory, autoimmune disease with multiorgan involvement and frequent skin involvement, mostly in females. Cutaneous lupus erythematosus is classified into several subtypes, with discoid lupus erythematosus being the most common form within chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus. The following is the case of a previously healthy 38-year-old man with systemic lupus erythematosus and cutaneous involvement due to discoid lupus with an atypical distribution of skin lesions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Tropical verrucous syndrome comprises various cutaneous and, occasionally, extracutaneous infectious entities, which generate chronic granulomatous reactions and have a wide distribution worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions. Methodology: Case report. Results and discussion: Diagnoses can be challenging and confused with each other, which is more common between sporotrichosis, the subcutaneous fungal infection, and leishmaniasis, the cutaneous, mucosal, and visceral parasitic infection, due to their clinical and epidemiological similarities. Furthermore, given the pathophysiology of both entities, they can simultaneously coinfect the same patient, which makes diagnosis and therapeutic response difficult and makes it necessary to use different diagnostic methods to differentiate them. Below, a case of tropical verrucous syndrome caused by the confection of sporotrichosis and leishmaniasis is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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