Hemangioma, cavernous. reflected light microscopy: Section of a lesion of the thigh of a 39-year-old woman. multiple, red, livid and blue-grey, round and oval lacunae. white-blueish, opaque septations (blood-filled cavities lined with endothelium press the papillary connective tissue against the reteleal ridges).
Lipoma: A subcutaneous lump on the upper arm which has existed for years, is completely unattractive and asymptomatic, can be easily delimited and slides over the underlying tissue.
Erythema anulare centrifugum. detail view: clearly borderline (well palpable border) and centrally fading plaque on the abdomen of a 54-year-old patient. underlying disease: M. Wegener.
Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans: extensive, oedematous, tender red erythema as well as flaccid atrophy with cigarette-paper-like folding of the skin on the right hand of a 77-year-old woman. For 2 years there has also been joint pain in both hands and both shoulder joints as well as gait insecurity with proven neuroborreliosis. The fingernails are partly dystrophic (see stripy leukonychia) and partly no longer firmly connected to the nail bed.
Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans: Livid erythema on the back of the right hand and nail dystrophies in a 78-year-old female patient with confirmed neuroborreliosis 6 years ago. Cushion-like (pernion-like) plaques on the fingers. Persistent pain in the carpal and interphalangeal joints.
Atrophodermia idiopathica et progressiva. chronic stationary, map-like spread, brownish spots. the existing skin changes have developed within 2-3 years.
Fasciitis, necrotizing. foudroyant running, primarily underestimated, highly painful clinical picture with high fever and massive swelling of the left hand. Patient with several years of immunosuppressive therapy.
Mycid. hematogenic scattering reaction (Id reaction) in a very extensive tinea corporis treated with a systemic therapeutic agent; acute formation of an itchy, partly papular, partly also vesicular exanthema.
Haematoma; after a fall on the left forearm a flat, bluish discoloration occurred; it is a bleeding of varying intensity into the skin and the subcutaneous fatty tissue, which, depending on its age, passes through different shades of colour in stages: first blue-red, then blue, later green-yellow and yellow.
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