A male engineer aged 47 years presented with multiple pinhead-sized flat red spots on his fingers and face.

A man aged 62 years presented with a persistent, severely pruritic eruption that had progressed over the preceding five days.

A woman aged 70 years presented with a longstanding pigmented lesion on her right ear.

A man aged 43 years presented with a persistent, progressively enlarging facial lesion that had persisted for more than 20 years.

Punch biopsy is a poor diagnostic modality for clinically suspicious pigmented lesions.

Skin cancer medicine is a core component of Australian general practice and is consistently in the top 10 conditions managed.

Skin cancer medicine is a core component of Australian general practice. The Focus articles featured in this issue discuss the management of pigmented skin lesions in general practice.

Steroid acne may appear in areas of topical steroid application or on patients taking systemic steroids. Treatment should include discontinuation of steroid medication until lesions have resolved.

A man aged 50 years reported a three-year history of an asymptomatic scalp lesion that had persisted after three episodes of cryotherapy for a presumed diagnosis of solar keratoses.

Most viral exanthems can be distinguished initially on the basis of age, distribution and morphology of the rash without requiring investigations.

Clinical photography is a fundamental component of visually oriented medical fields.

This study discusses how skin in patients with skin of colour is biologically, functionally and structurally different to that of patients with lightly pigmented skin.

Acute telogen effluvium has been recognised as a dermatological sequela of COVID-19.