Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta. acutely occurring "colorful" exanthema after febrile infection with differently sized papules measuring 0.2-0.8 cm, papulovesicles, erosions, and encrusted ulcers. healing with formation of varioliform scars.
Transitory acantholytic dermatosis. 6-8 weeks of slowly progressive moderately pruritic, truncal exanthema in a 53-year-old man. Red, 2-5 mm large, flat papules confluent at the sternum to plaques of about 3 cm diameter.
Malasseziafolliculitis: multiple, acute, disseminated, follicle-bound, 0.2-0.6 cm large, inflammatory, red papules and papulopustules; existing for months, immunosuppression.
Pityriasis lichenoides chronica: a clinical picture with multiple, inflammatory, scaly, excoriated papules that has been present for months and is accompanied by considerable itching; cause unknown.
Drug exanthema, maculo-papular. multiple, acutely occurring, generalized, very itchy, mainly on the trunk and extremities localized, mostly confluent, smooth papules and plaques in a 31-year-old woman. Occurrence after ingestion of acetylsalicylic acid.
Varicella: generalized, but only moderately pronounced (no feeling of illness) exanthema with a coexistence of vesicles, papules, papulopustules in a 24-year-old female patient.
Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta: after febrile infection, acutely occurring exanthema with differently sized, symmetrically distributed, hardly itching, intact and eroded or ulcerated papules
Dermatitis herpetiformis: chronically recurrent course of the disease. disseminated, burning, itchy, urticarial papules, papulo-vesicles and erosions. lesions are aggregated to larger plaques (here circled). p. detail images.
eczema atopic in childhood: 14-year-old adolescent with generalized atopic eczema. striking grey-brown, dry skin. multiple scratched papules and plaques. extensive, therapy-resistant pyoderma on the left thigh (developed after traumatic abrasion)
Angioma, senile. multipe, chronically stationary,1-4 mm large, sharply defined, initially light red, later dark red to violet, soft, flat papules. patient reported severe seborrhea on the integument.
Dermatosis, acute febrile neutrophilic. reddish-livid, succulent, pressure-dolent, infiltrated, solitary and partly confluent papules confluent to plaques, on the right side of the body in a 33-year-old patient. 1 week before the onset of the disease a fever attack with temperatures > 38 °C occurred.
Chronicdyskeratosis follicularis, also affecting the Rima ani (see detailed picture), intertriginous, whitish and red-brownish sooty, blurred, macerated, superficially rough, clearly increased in consistency, itchy and unpleasantly smelling plaques.
Xanthomas, eruptive:0.1-0.3 cm large, yellow-brown, flat raised, superficially smooth and shiny, firm papules in dense seeding in a 54-year-old patient with known hyperlipoproteinaemia type IV.
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