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Photograph showing multiple ulcers and nodules over the forearm
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A 15-year-old male child presented to our tertiary care trauma center with multiple non-healing ulcers on the left forearm since 2 months following trauma by a sharp object [Figure 1].
X-ray (anteroposterior and lateral views) showing multiple subcutaneous radioopaque deposits
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X-ray and non-contrast computed tomography scan of the left upper limb was performed, which showed a diffuse area of multiple, subcutaneous radioopaque deposits up to the lower arm [Figure 2].
Hematoxylin and eosin-stained section (x10) showing mercury droplets in the cystic spaces surrounded by chronic inflammatory cells
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Surrounding these spaces were foreign body-type giant cells, histiocytes, lymphocytes and plasma cells [Figure 3].