Prognosis is excellent with proper treatment. Treating sexual contacts of affected individual helps break cycle of infection. Follow-up Within 3–7 days after commencing treatment, patients should be re-examined to determine whether the treatment was successful. Within 3 days, symptoms of ulcers should improve. Healing time of the ulcer depends mainly on size and can take more than two weeks for larger ulcers. In uncircumcised men, healing is slower if the ulcer is under the foreskin. Sometimes, needle aspiration or incision and drainage are necessary.
Chancroid
Genital herpes
Tinea manuum
Demodicosis
Tinea faciei
Lentigo simplex
Tinea capitis
Melanosis coli