Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

Prayer nodules

Habib ur Rehman MBBS, Nabil A. Asfour MD

Rehman and Asfour doi: 10.1503/cmaj.090392

A 59-year-old man had bilateral lichenified, crusted and hemorrhagic nodules over the dorsum of the feet and around the lateral malleoli. The nodules were painless, well-circumscribed, hyperpigmented and hyperkeratotic. The patient, a Buddhist monk, spent extended periods of time (sometimes days) in a cross-legged sitting position for meditation (full text...)