Spider veins. Linear and reticular vascular ectasia in a 65-year-old patient with chronic venous insufficiency. The finding has been present for several years.
Mononucleosis, infectious: slightly itchy, urticarial, small-spotted, locally confluent haemorrhagic exanthema on the right arm in a juvenile patient; it is a viral disease caused by the Epstein-Barr virus with accompanying necrotizing angina and lymphadenopathy.
Purpura thrombocytopenic: line shaped (after scratching, as well as after application of a compression bandage) fresh and slightly older skin bleedings (cannot be pushed away diascopically).
Livedo reticularis: Thigh of a 24-year-old woman after sauna with cold shower; additional findings: Cicatrix after excision of a nevus cell nevus in the middle of the thigh.
Purpura eczematide-like purpura: non-symptomatic (no itching) "eczema-like" disease that has been recurrent for months in a completely healthy patient (no history of medication).
Urticaria pigmentosa (systemic mastocytosis): spots of varying size, disseminated, flat, oval or round, brownish-red spots on the trunk, buttocks and thighs; continuous proliferation of the spots for years; laboratory and histological evidence of systemic infestation.
Teleangiectasia syndrome, nevoides. 6 years of discreet redness on both lower legs of a 37-year-old female patient which increases in the course of time. The teleangiectatic drawings are clinically striking.
Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome: extensive, bilateral vascular malformation of capillary (naevus flammeus) and venous vessels (varicosis with chronic venous insufficiency - CVI); distinct soft tissue hypertrophy on the left side; no pelvic obliquity!
Purpura pigmentosa progressiva: etiologically unexplained (medication?) pronounced clinical picture that has been changing for several months with symmetrically distributed, disseminated, non-itching, yellow-brown, spots.
Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. general view: blurred, livid red, spots on the right thigh. skin in the lower area (arrow mark) folded like cigarette paper
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