Kaposi's sarcoma. chronic (classic) Kaposi's sarcoma, 75-year-old turkish pat. with several years old, in recent months clearly progressive, borderline, reddish-livid, smooth plaques and blue-black nodules. centrifugal spread of the skin lesions.
sarcoidosis, plaque form. nodules and plaques that are easily distinguishable from the surrounding area. foci are movable on the support; scaly-crusted surface.
Keratoacanthoma: Solitary, 1.5 cm in diameter, spherically bulging, hard, reddish, centrally dented, strongly keratinizing node on the forehead of an 82-year-old patient; the peripheral, wall-like areas of the node are interspersed with telangiectasias and enclose a central, gray-yellow, keratotic plug.
Acanthosis nigricans maligna: Severe infestation of the back with hyperkeratotic papules on yellow-brown hyperpigmentation in a 75-year-old female patient with ovarian cancer.
Necrobiosis lipoidica: confluent, reddish-brownish, reddish-brownish, centrally clearly atrophic plaques that have existed for about 2 years, gradually increasing in size, sharply defined, confluent plaques with conspicuous edges, increase in consistency over the entire plaque.
Lentigo of the mucous membrane; for more than 1 year existing, about 2 cm in diameter, irregular but sharply defined, band-shaped, dark brown macula in the region of the inner preputial leaf of a 72-year-old man.
Granuloma anulare disseminatum: non-painful, non-itching, disseminated, large-area plaques that appeared on the trunk and extremities of a 52-year-old patient. No diabetes mellitus. No other systemic diseases known.
Lentigo maligna: a slow-growing, heterogeneously pigmented, light to dark brown, asymmetrical spot with irregularly lobed edges on the left cheek of a 68-year-old woman with skin type I, known for several years.
Papillomatosis confluens et reticularis. years ago, initially dark discolouration in the neck area of a 31-year-old patient, followed by systemic antimycotic therapy without improvement. current presentation in case of worsening of the findings with axillary spread.findings: multiple, chronically stationary, perimamillary papules located on the left side, disseminated, blurred, brown, rough, finely lamellar scaling papules, which aggregate to a flat plaque. the stripy reticular pattern of the plaque is clearly visible.
Lymphomatoid papulosis. reflected light microscopy (detail): In the initial phase of a papule eruption a concentric or radial pattern of punctiform or garland-like vascular ectasia is visible. partially brownish background pigment (oxidative haemoglobin degradation).
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