Glass Splinter Leaves Patient with Papule a Month Later – Let’s Diagnose

A 30-year-old man went to the doctor concerned about a red papule that had developed on his hand over the last few weeks. He remembered getting a splinter on the same hand after cleaning up a shattered drinking glass about a month earlier, but was sure he got all of the glass out at the time.

Could it be cellulitisLobular capillary hemangioma? An abscess? A foreign body granuloma?

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