# Skin Lesion Help Needed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-lesion-help-needed/618529>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 12, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-lesion-help-needed/618529 "2012-04-12T03:34:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-lesion-help-needed/618529/1 "2012-04-12T03:34:27Z")

</div>

I ran into a old friend today and asked her about a prominent change on her face. She has a patch on her cheek that looks like a group of tightly packed blackheads or close range powder burns, maybe a tightly packed patch of tattooed black dots covering an 1 inch rough circle. Yhe lesion consisted of individual discrete tiny dots of black color. I suggested she see a dermatologist posthaste, but meanwhile, does any Doper have an idea about the skin lesion I have described?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-lesion-help-needed/618529/2 "2012-04-12T04:39:49Z")

</div>

Did it look kinda like [this?](http://www.fairviewcosmeticsurgery.com/images/wart_before_01.jpg) It’s a kind of wart cluster - google mosaic warts - or not…

I had a plantar wart in college (thanks, shared showers!) that sounds a lot like your description. Sounds like something similar can develop on the face, too.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-lesion-help-needed/618529/3 "2012-04-12T05:06:56Z")

</div>

Yug. Trypophobes might not want to click on that link. It’s no “breast rash,” but it’s…clustery.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-lesion-help-needed/618529/4 "2012-04-12T11:37:31Z")

</div>

> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
>
> Did it look kinda like [this?](http://www.fairviewcosmeticsurgery.com/images/wart_before_01.jpg) It’s a kind of wart cluster - google mosaic warts - or not…
> 
> I had a plantar wart in college (thanks, shared showers!) that sounds a lot like your description. Sounds like something similar can develop on the face, too.

Thanks, that’s exactly what it looks like! Your picture even shows it in roughly the same location. I’m off to google up some information on warts.