Angiodysplasia. 20 x 20 cm measuring soft elastic swelling in the region of the left flank of a 42-year-old female patient. 8.0 x 2.0 cm livid-red nevus flammeus is visible adjacent to the vascular malformation.
Type I Neurofibromatosis, peripheral type or classic cutaneous form. Permanent, multiple, skin-coloured, calotte-like bulging, soft, smooth papules and nodules in the area of the back of the hand and the sides of the fingers. Positive bell-button phenomenon: subcutaneous tumours protruding like hernia through the skin can be pushed back with one finger.
Melanoma, malignant, amelanotic. 1.5 x 1.6 cm measuring, sharply defined, non-pigmented, white-red tumor with whitish to yellowish, verrucous, partly erosive changed surface on the lower leg of a 70-year-old patient.
Granuloma anulare subcutaneum. several, moderately pressure-dolent, skin-coloured to brown-red, deeply dermal or subcutaneously situated, moderately coarse, shifting, 0.4-1.5 cm large nodules and nodes. existence for years (5-15 years).
Granuloma anulare disseminatum. detail enlargement: Solitary or confluent, 0.2-1.5 cm in size, bluish to brownish, non-scaling or only slightly scaling spots, papules and plaques on the trunk in a 73-year-old male.
Basal cell carcinoma, nodular. solitary, 1.0 x 1.2 cm large, broad-based, firm, painless nodule, with a shiny, smooth parchment-like surface covered by ectatic, bizarre vessels. Note: There is no follicular structure on the surface of the nodule (compare surrounding skin of the bridge of the nose with the protruding follicles).
Enteritis regionalis, skin lesions, chronic, acneiform, follicular and parafollicular, in places abscessing inflammatory reactions on lower abdomen and thighs. 42-year-old woman with enteritis regionalis. Further findings: Striae cutis after pregnancy.
Squamous cell carcinoma in actinically damaged skin.:since > 1year, slowly growing, very firm, little pain-sensitive lump, which (at the time of examination) was no longer movable on its support. Bleeding repeatedly.
Melanoma, malignant, nodular. malignant melanoma of the primary-nodular type with satellite filia left pectoral in a 43-year-old man. in the last months surface and thickness growth. chronic, since youth existing, 2 x 1 cm, asymmetrical, irregularly limited, clearly raised, dark brown-black plaque of medium-rough consistency. coarse, partly nodular surface. no crustal deposit, no ulceration.
squamous cell carcinoma of the skin: advanced ulcerated carcinoma. previously misinterpreted as a venous ulcer. the carcinoma is palpated as a very firm, little pain-sensitive (!) node, which is hardly movable on its base. a sentinel lymph node biopsy proved negative (no tumor infestation).
Leprosy. leprosy lepromatosa (-LL-): disease pattern with papules and nodules in diffuse distribution that has been continuously developing for many years; loss of eyebrows, partial loss of eyelashes (Alopecia lepromatosa)
Angiosarcoma of the head and facial skin: the 69-year-old patient noticed this rapidly growing and recurrently bleeding 3x5 cm large, little symptomatic node around the capillitium for 6 months. After incomplete preliminary surgery within a few weeks formation of the present recurrent node. The inconspicuous erythema around the node is noticeable. After the micrographically controlled surgery, the tumor was only free of tumor after an approximately 10 x 10 cm large excision.
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