This woman’s ‘tripe’ palms told doctors exactly where to look for cancer
Her 'velvety' hands pointed to one of two tumour sites
If your patient’s palms bear an unflattering resemblance to boiled stomach lining, they are more than likely a serious sign of internal malignancy.
In a case published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a 73-year-old woman presented to dermatologists with “sharp demarcation of the folds in the lines of her hands in addition to a velvety appearance of palmar surfaces and ridging of the skin”.
