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Postgrad Med J 88:427-428 doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2012-130822
  • Images in medicine

A slate grey rash

  1. Elaine Morrison3
  1. 1Department of Medicine, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK
  2. 2School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  3. 3Department of Rheumatology, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Samuel Paul Leighton, Department of Medicine, Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; samuel.leighton{at}glasgow.ac.uk
  1. Contributors SPL, DRB and EM wrote the article and contributed intellectually. EM supervised the project.

A 74-year-old woman admitted with a chest infection was noted to have an extensive slate grey skin discolouration of the face and lower legs (figures 1 and 2). She had been …