Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma: unspectacular clinical picture with glassy appearing solid nodules. Fig. taken from Oliveira CC et al. (2018) Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the skin. An Bras Dermatol 93:256-258.
Atrichia congenita diffusa. eyebrows, eyelashes and head hair missing since birth in an 18-month-old boy. Discrete papular skin lesions of the periorbital region.
Leprosy. leprosy lepromatosa (-LL-) with large, discreet, somewhat borderline plaque on the cheek and neck. clearly protruding and palpable nerve cord as a sign of lepromatous neuritis.
Lipoma: A subcutaneous lump on the shoulder that has existed for years, is completely unattractive and asymptomatic, can be easily delimited and slid over the underlying tissue.
Dyshidrosis: Multiple, acutely occurring, skin-coloured, isolated but also aggregated, smooth, itchy vesicles in the groin skin, existing for 4 days, 0.1-0.3 cm in size; progression in stages; increased in the warm seasons.
Alopecia androgenetica in the female. classic, initial androgenetic alopecia of the female pattern, with preserved frontal hair and emphasis on the high-parietal hair areas in a 16-year-old female patient. secondary findings are generalized hypertrichosis since childhood. the patient's sister is also affected, previous generations are all free of symptoms.
Scleroedema adultorum. extensive, board-like indurations in the region of the upper back, neck and shoulders in a 65-year-old female patient with diabetes mellitus. secondary findings are shortness of breath and movement restrictions of the arms.
Dorsal cyst, mucoid: painless, approximately 1.0 cm large, skin-coloured, plump, elastic, surface-smooth "nodule" (cyst) which has existed for about 1 year and from which a gelatinous substance has been evacuated at the proximal end (crust-covered part) under pressure, whereby the whole nodule has disappeared. As shown here, a pressure-induced groove-shaped nail dystrophy may occur in the case of longer existing "dorsal cysts".
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