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Erosions and ulcers
Some skin diseases are very prone to break down into sores. Surface sores are called erosions; these may start off as blisters or pustules. Full thickness sores are ulcers.
Ulcers on lower leg trauma
- Insect bites and stings Stasis/varicose/venous ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Hypertensive leg ulcers
- Arteriosclerotic ulcers
- Neuropathic ulcers eg diabetic
- Ulcerating skin cancers (BCC, SCC, Melanoma)
- Panniculitis
- Vasculitic ulcers e.g. cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa
- Pyoderma gangrenosum
- Tropical ulcer
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Ulcers due to picking
- Prurigo
- Dermatitis artefacta
- Compulsive skin picking
- Trigeminal trophic syndrome
- Delusions of parasitosis
- Morgellons disease
Ulcers on limbs &/or trunk
- Bacterial, viral or fungal infections in immune suppressed
- Mycosis fungoides
- Spider bites
- Atypical mycobacterial infections
- Genital conditions
- Porphyria cutanea tarda
- Erythropoeitic protoporphyria
- Wounds in general
Ulcers on head and neck
- Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis (ear)
- Erosive pustular dermatosis (scalp)
- Aphthous ulcers (mouth and genitals)
- Aplasia cutis (scalp)
- Trigeminal trophic syndrome (nostril)
- Ulcerating skin cancers (BCC, SCC, Melanoma)
Erosions
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