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Differential Diagnosis in Dermatopathology
THIRD EDITION
by A. Bernard Ackerman, M.D.

Contrasting pairs of diseases to reveal clinical distinctions

 Acne vulgaris, erythematous papule vs. Rosacea, erythematous papule

 Acute discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus

 Allergic contact dermatitis vs. Irritant contact dermatitis

 Allergic (leukocytoclastic) vasculitis vs. Septic vasculitis

 Alopecia areata vs. Trichotillomania

 Alopecia of discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Alopecia of lichen planus

 Amputation neuroma secondary to supernumerary digit vs. Acquired digital fibrokeratoma

 Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia vs. Angiosarcoma

 Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia vs. Kimura's disease

 Apocrine (clear-cell) hidradenoma vs. Eccrine (poroid) hidradenoma

 Apocrine mixed tumor vs. Eccrine mixed tumor

 Atrophic lichen planus vs. Atrophic discoid lupus erythematosus

 Common baldness vs. Telogen effluvium

 Darier's disease (keratosis follicularis) vs. Grover's disease (transient acantholytic dermatosis)

 Dermatitis herpetiformis vs. Bullous pemphigoid

 Dermatofibroma vs. Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans

 Dermatofibroma vs. Desmoplastic Spitz's nevus

 Dermatofibroma, hemorrhagic papulo-nodule vs. Kaposi's sarcoma, hemorrhagic papulo-nodule

 Dermatofibroma with "monster" cells vs. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma

 Dilated pore vs. Pilar sheath acanthoma

 Discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Dermatomyositis

 Discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Polymorphous light eruption

 Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis vs. Plane wart

 Erythema multiforme vs. Fixed drug eruption

 Erythema multiforme vs. Graft-versus-host disease, acute phase

 Erythema multiforme vs. Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (Mucha-Habermann disease)

 Erythema multiforme vs. Toxic shock syndrome

 Erythema nodosum vs. Nodular vasculitis

 Erythroderma of psoriasis vs. Erythroderma of mycosis fungoides

 Granular-cell tumor vs. Xanthoma

 Granuloma annulare vs. Eruptive xanthoma

 Granuloma annulare vs. Necrobiosis lipoidica

 Granuloma annulare, interstitial type vs. Interstitial granulomatous dermatitis with arthritis

 Guttate psoriasis vs. Guttate (dermatosis) parapsoriasis

 Guttate psoriasis vs. Seborrheic dermatitis

 Herpes simplex vs. Vaccinia

 Ichthyosis vulgaris vs. X-linked ichthyosis

 Infundibular cyst vs. Isthmus-catagen cyst

 Infundibulo-folliculo-sebaceous cystic hamartoma vs. Steatocystoma

 Insect "bite" vs. Lymphomatoid papulosis

 Insect "Bite," Superficial vs. Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (PUPPP)

 Interstitial granuloma annulare vs. Interstitial mycosis fungoides

 Junctional melanocytic nevus vs. Melanoma in situ on sun-damaged skin of a face

 Keloid vs. Hypertrophic scar

 Keratoacanthomatous verruca vulgaris vs. Verrucous keratoacanthoma

 Leukocytoclastic vasculitis vs. livedo vasculitis

 Leukokeratosis vs. Leukoplakia

 Lichen amyloidosis vs. Colloid milium

 Lichen nitidus vs. Lichen striatus

 Lichen planus vs. Lichen planus-like keratosis

 Lichen planus vs. Lichenoid discoid lupus erythematosus

 Lichen planus vs. lichenoid drug eruption

 Lichen planus vs. Lichenoid secondary syphilis

 Lichen planus-like keratosis vs. Solar keratosis with lichenoid infiltrate of lymphocytes

 Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus vs. Chronic radiation dermatitis

 Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus vs. Superficial morphea

 Lichen simplex chronicus vs. Hypertrophic lichen planus

 Lichenoid purpura (of Gougerot and Blum) vs. Mycosis fungoides (plaque stage)

 Lupus erythematosus profundus vs. Panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma

 Lupus profundus vs. Morphea profundus

 Lymphocytoma cutis with lymphoid follicles vs. Follicular-cell lymphoma

 Lymphomatoid papulosis vs. Mycosis fungoides, plaque

 Metastatic carcinoma from a breast vs. Morpheiform basal-cell carcinoma

 Morphea, late stage vs. Collagenous nevus

 Mucha-Habermann vs. Lymphomatoid papulosis

 Mucha-Habermann disease vs. Secondary syphilis

 Mycosis fungoides, papular/plaque stage vs. Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, papular stage

 Mycosis fungoides, plaque vs. Histiocytosis X, plaque

 Necrobiosis lipoidica vs. Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma

 Nevus verrucosus vs. Acanthosis nigricans

 Nodular fasciitis vs. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma

 Nodular scabies vs. Lymphomatoid papulosis

 Nodular vasculitis vs. Subcutaneous polyarteritis nodosa

 Pagetoid Bowen's disease vs. Extramammary Paget's disease

 Pale-cell acanthoma vs. Psoriasis, plaque expression

 Papular Mucinosis vs Interstitial Granuloma Annulare

 Pemphigus vulgaris vs. Benign familial chronic pemphigus Hailey-Hailey disease

 Pemphigus vulgaris vs. Grover's disease, pemphigus vulgaris-like variant

 Perforating Folliculitis vs. Elastosis Perforans Serpiginosa

 Photoallergic dermatitis vs. Phototoxic dermatitis

 Pityriasis lichenoides acuta vs. Pityriasis lichenoides chronica

 Pityriasis rosea vs. Guttate dermatosis (mycosis fungoides)

 Porokeratotic epidermal nevus vs. Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus

 Pretibial myxedema vs. Scleromyxedema

 Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy vs. Herpes gestationis, urticarial stage

 Pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia (as in a deep fungal infection) vs. Squamous-cell carcinoma

 "Pseudolymphoma," B-cell type vs. Malignant lymphoma, B-cell type

 Psoriasis vs. Nummular dermatitis

 Psoriasis vs. Pityriasis rubra pilaris

 Psoriasis on volar skin vs. Dyshidrotic dermatitis

 Pyogenic granuloma vs. Bacillary angiomatosis

 Pyogenic granuloma, fully developed vs. Kaposi's sarcoma, nodular

 Regression of lichen planus-like keratosis vs. Regression of primary cutaneous melanoma

 Scleroderma (morphea) vs. Scleredema (Buschke)

 Sebaceous hyperplasia vs. Nevus sebaceus of Jadassohn

 Seborrheic keratosis, acanthotic type vs. Eccrine poroma

 Solar keratosis vs. Bowen's disease

 Spitz's nevus, compound type vs. Melanoma

 Spongiotic dermatitis with simulation of Pautrier's collections vs. Mycosis fungoides with Pautrier's collections

 Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (expression of toxic epidermal necrolysis) vs. Erythema multiforme (expression of toxic epidermal necrolysis)

 Subcutaneous granuloma annulare vs. Rheumatoid nodule

 Surface of dermatofibroma affiliated with follicular germs vs. Surface of superficial basal-cell carcinoma

 Syringocystadenoma papilliferum vs. Hidradenoma papilliferum

 Trichoadenoma vs. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma

 Trichoblastoma, small nodular type vs. Basal-cell carcinoma, small nodular type

 Trichoblastoma, small nodular type vs. Trichoblastoma, large nodular type

 Trichoblastoma, trichoepitheliomatous type vs. Trichoblastic (basal-cell) carcinoma, nodular type

 Trichoepithelioma vs. Infundibulocystic basal-cell carcinoma

 Trichotillomania (developed fully) vs. Traction alopecia (end stage)

 Tuberculoid leprosy vs. Sarcoidosis

 Urticaria vs. Urticarial lesions of bullous pemphigoid

 Urticarial reaction to an arthropod assault vs. Urtica

 Verruca vulgaris vs. Verrucous solar keratosis

 Verrucous seborrheic keratosis vs. verrucous epidermal nevus

 Xanthogranuloma vs. Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma

 Xanthogranuloma vs. Reticulohistiocytic granuloma

 Xanthomatous dermatofibroma vs. Xanthomatous malignant fibrous histiocytoma

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