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Hôpital Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Abstract
Main causes of palpable solid lesions of the same color as normal skin, with no alteration of the skin surface
Table 31.1
Main causes of palpable solid lesions of the same color as normal skin, with no alteration of the skin surface
Melanocytic and non-melanocytic nevi, malformations, and tumors | Atypical fibroxanthoma |
Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicisa | |
Cysts (i.e., epidermoid, trichilemmal, dermoid) | |
Epithelial and adnexal tumors: early-stage skin cancers (particularly basal cell carcinoma), fibroepithelioma of Pinkus (or premalignant fibroepithelial tumors of Pinkus), benign and malignant adnexal tumorsa, dermatofibrosarcoma, etc. | |
Fibromas, connective tissue hamartomas, sarcomas, and other tumors of the connective tissue | |
Glomus tumor | |
Lipomatous: lipoma, angiolipoma, nodulocystic lipodystrophy | |
Melanocytic: achromic melanoma, achromic nevus | |
Metastasis (especially nodule) | |
Nerve tumor: neurofibroma, neuroma and other nerve tumors | |
Nodular fasciitis | |
Rhinophyma | |
Scar (hypertrophic, cheloid) | |
Skin tag | |
Overload diseases | Acral mucinosis |
Lipoid proteinosis (palpebral) | |
Macroglobulinodermia (in patients with Waldenström’s disease) | |
Papular amyloidosis | |
Tophus, calcinosis and osteoma cutis | |
Infections | Molluscum contagiosum |
Warts (flat and genital)a | |
Granulomatous and systemic diseases | Eosinophilic granuloma |
FACE | |
Fibroblastic rheumatism | |
Foreign body granuloma | |
Granuloma annulare | |
Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis | |
Phalangeal padsa | |
Rheumatoid nodule and palisading granuloma | |
Sarcoidosis | |
Miscellaneous
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