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  1. Lichen Planus

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    Description: Lichen planus - multiple violaceous papules and plaques over legs and feet Lichen planus is a skin condition of unknown origin that produces small, shiny, flat-topped, itchy pink or purple raised spots on the wrists, forearms or lower legs, especially in middle-aged patients.
    Keywords: purple, flat topped papule, Skin disease, Lichen Planus
  2. Tinea Capitis

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    Description: Tinea capitis - non-scarring patch of alopecia with follicular scales A common form of fungus infection of the scalp caused by various species of Microsporum and Trichophyton on or within hair shafts, occurring most commonly in children and characterized by irregularly placed and variously sized patches of apparent baldness because of hairs breaking off at the surface of the scalp, scaling, black dots (see black-dot ringworm), and occasionally erythema and pyoderma.
    Keywords: Signs and Symptoms, Bacterial Infections and Mycoses, patches of baldness, Fungal infection of scalp, Pathological Conditions
  3. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

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    Description: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) - lesions sparing the nasolabial folds Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called lupus or SLE) is a disease where a person's immune system attacks and injures the body's own organs and tissues. Almost every system of the body can be affected by SLE.
    Keywords: Lupus Vasculitis, Central Nervous System, Systemic, Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases, Autoimmune disorder, skin disorder
  4. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

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    Description: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) - vasculitis with gangrene of toes Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called lupus or SLE) is a disease where a person's immune system attacks and injures the body's own organs and tissues. Almost every system of the body can be affected by SLE.
    Keywords: Lupus Vasculitis, Central Nervous System, Systemic, Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases, Autoimmune disorder, skin disorder
  5. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

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    Description: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) - discoid lesions over eyebrow, nose Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called lupus or SLE) is a disease where a person's immune system attacks and injures the body's own organs and tissues. Almost every system of the body can be affected by SLE.
    Keywords: skin disorder, Systemic, Lupus Vasculitis, Central Nervous System, Autoimmune disorder, Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases
  6. Rhinosporidiosis

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    Description: Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic, localized granulomatous fungal infection of the mucocutaneous tissues, especially that of the nose, caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi, usually found in India and Sri Lanka but also seen in many temperate and tropical regions worldwide, characterized by the development of polyps, tumors, papillomas, or wartlike lesions.
    Keywords: Warts, lesions, fungal infection
  7. Scaling, Psoriasis

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    Description: Scaling - peeling of skin, e.g. psoriasis vulgaris Psoriasis is named for the Greek word psōra meaning "itch," psoriasis is a chronic, non-contagious disease characterized by inflamed lesions covered with silvery-white scabs of dead skin.
    Keywords: Skin disease, patches, itching, lesions, dead skin, scaling
  8. Type 2 Lepra Reaction

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    Description: Type 2 lepra reaction (erythema nodosum leprosum) - multiple erythematous tender papules over dorsum of forearms and hands
    Keywords: erythema nodosum, red paules or nodules on the skin, bactrerial infection, Leprosy, Bacterial Infections and Mycoses, skin lesions, sensory loss
  9. Id Reaction (Autoeczematization)

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    Description: Id reaction (autoeczematization) - eruption over axilla The spread, at first locally and later more generally, of lesions from an originally circumscribed focus of eczema.
    Keywords: Skin, eczema, lesion
  10. Pemphigus Vulgaris

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    Description: Pemphigus vulgaris - severe non-healing ulcers over buccal mucosa, palate, tongue, lips, and nostrils Pemphigus is any of a group of diseases characterized by successive crops of large bullae (“water blisters”). Although rare, they are serious and require prompt treatment. The cause is unknown; they seem to occur only in adults and can occur in acute or chronic form. Pemphigus vulga´ris the most common and severe form of pemphigus, usually occurring between the ages of 40 and 60, characterized by the chronic development of flaccid, easily ruptured bullae upon apparently normal skin and mucous membranes, beginning focally but progressing to become generalized, leaving large, weeping, denuded surfaces that become partially crusted over with little or no tendency to heal and that enlarge by confluence. In untreated cases, sepsis, cachexia, and electrolyte imbalance may occur and lead to death.
    Keywords: Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous, Pemphigus