Acute erysipelas. acutely appeared, since a few days existing, increasing, flat, sharply defined, pillow-like raised, flaming red and painful swelling of the cheek and the left eye. distinct impairment of the general condition with fever.
Lichtermatosis polymorphic: Occurrence of clinical symptoms a few hours to days after (single and first-time) intensive sun exposure with itching and burning, disseminated papules and papulo-pustules also papulo-vesicles.
Angiosarcoma of the skin of the head and face. flat, smooth, asymptomatic, chronically dynamic, slowly growing, red plaques without epidermal involvement in a 68-year-old man.
Eczema, atopic. chronic, recurrent, itchy red spots and slightly raised red plaques on the cheeks and forehead of an 8-month-old girl; multiple, disseminated, partly crusty scratch excoriations are also visible.
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.
lupus erythematodes chronicus discoides: already longstanding, blurred, red, butterfly-shaped red plaques. delicate scarring beginning at the bridge of the nose. no systemic autoimmune phenomena.
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.
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