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Abietic Acid Dermatitis
Abietic acid dermatitis is a skin condition that occurs when a person comes into contact with abietic acid, a natural resin acid found in various plants,...
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- Abietic Acid Dermatitis
- Absence of Fingerprints–Congenital Milia Syndrome
- Acid-induced Dermatitis
- Acrylic Monomer Dermatitis
- Acute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
- Acute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
- Acute Vesiculobullous Hand Eczema
- African Blackwood Dermatitis
- Airbag Dermatitis
- Allergic Contact Dermatitis, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Allergic Dermatitis
- Alopecia (Hair Loss)
- Alopecia Antibody Deficiency
- Alopecia Areata
- Alopecia Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Alopecia Cicatricata
- Alopecia Symptoms, Treatment, Home Remedies
- Alopecia Treatment, Home Remedies, Prevention
- Alopecia Universalis Congenita (AUC)
- Alopecia Universalis with Onychodystrophy and Vitiligo
- Alopecia; Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Annular Lichen Planus (ALP)
- Anonychia with Flexural Pigmentation
- Antifungal Agent-induced Dermatitis
- Antimicrobial Agent-Induced Dermatitis
- Artificial Nail-induced Dermatitis
- Athlete’s Foot Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Athlete’s Foot, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Atopic Dermatitis
- Atopic Dermatitis Causes, Treatment, Prevention
- Atopic Dermatitis, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Autosensitization Dermatitis
- Axillary Antiperspirant-induced Dermatitis
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- Causes of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA)
- Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA)
- Chilblain Lupus
- Childhood Granulomatous Periorificial Dermatitis
- Childhood Malignant Melanoma
- Chloracne Dermatitis
- Choroidal Atrophy–Alopecia Syndrome
- Chronic Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
- Chronic Vesiculobullous Hand Eczema
- Circumostomy Eczema
- Clothing-induced Dermatitis
- Clouston’s Hidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
- Contact Dermatitis Causes Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Contact Dermatitis Types Treatment, Prevention
- Contact Dermatitis, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Contact Urticaria
- Corticosteroid-Induced Dermatitis
- Cosmetic Dermatitis
- Cutaneous Hyperchromia
- Cutaneous Sarcomatoid Carcinoma
- Cutis Verticis Gyrata
- CYLD Cutaneous Syndrome
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- Hair Bleach-induced Dermatitis
- Hair Lotion-induced Dermatitis
- Hair Straightener-Induced Dermatitis
- Hair Tonic-Induced Dermatitis
- Hand eczema
- Herbal Drugs For Skin Diseases
- Houseplant-induced Dermatitis
- How Can I Understood It Is Mole Without Test
- How can you tell if a mole is cancerous?
- Hutchinson Lupus Pernio Type i
- Hydrocarbon-induced Dermatitis
- Hyperkeratotic Hand Dermatitis
- Hypertrichosis
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- Malignant Melanoma of the Eyelid
- Marine Plant-Induced Dermatitis
- Melanoma; Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Mercury-Induced Dermatitis
- Molluscum Dermatitis
- Monocyte-Related Cutaneous Conditions
- Moth Dermatitis
- Mouthwash-Induced Dermatitis
- Mucosynechia Atrophic Bullous Dermatitis
- Multiple Mole Melanoma (FAMMM) Syndrome
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- p-Chloro-meta-Xylenol-Induced Dermatitis
- Pachydermatous Eosinophilic Dermatitis
- Palmoplantar Keratoderma and Congenital Alopecia Type 2 (PPK-CA2)
- Palmoplantar Keratoderma and Congenital Alopecia, Stevanović Type
- Palmoplantar Keratoderma with Congenital Alopecia (PPK-CA)
- Papular Eruption in Dark Skin
- Papulopustular rosacea
- Papulosquamous Hyperkeratotic Cutaneous Conditions
- Paraben-Induced Dermatitis
- Pediatric Melanoma
- Perineal Dermatitis
- Periocular (Periorbital) Dermatitis
- Periocular Dermatitis
- Periorbital Dermatitis
- Periorificial Dermatitis
- Photo Contact Dermatitis, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Plant Derivative-Induced Dermatitis
- Plaque-Like Cutaneous Mucinosis
- Pollen-Induced Dermatitis
- Polyester Resin Dermatitis
- Pregnancy-Related Cutaneous Conditions
- Pressure-Induced Alopecia
- Primary Cutaneous CD4+/CD56+ Hematolymphoid Neoplasm
- Propylene Glycol-Induced Dermatitis
- Pustular
- Pustular Dermatitis
- Pustular Lesion
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- Scabies Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Scabies Prevention, Treatment, Complications
- Scabies Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Scabies Treatment, Symptoms, Diagnosis,
- Scabies, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Seaweed Dermatitis
- Seborrheic Dermatitis
- Seborrheic Eczema
- Seborrhoea–acne–hirsutism–alopecia
- Seed-Induced Dermatitis
- Self-Healing Juvenile Cutaneous Mucinosis
- Sensory Irritant Contact Dermatitis
- Shoes-Induced Dermatitis
- Skin Diseases – Types, Symptoms, Treatment
- Skin Diseases List; Types, Symptoms, Treatment
- Skin Disorders; Types, Symptoms, Treatment
- Skin Eruption
- Skin Fossa
- Skin Infection; Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Skin Mole Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Skin Mole; Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Skin Problems, Treatments, Symptoms, Types
- Skin Rash – Causes, Symptom, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Skin Ulcus Molle
- SLE – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Solvent-Induced Dermatitis
- Sorbic Acid-Induced Dermatitis
- Steroid Acne
- Steroid rosacea
- Subacute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
- Sunscreen-Induced Dermatitis
- Symptoms of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Systemic Contact Dermatitis
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – Symptoms, Treatment
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- Tacrolimus For Vitiligo – Indications, Contraindications
- Tear Gas Dermatitis
- Temporal Alopecia
- Temporal Triangular Alopecia
- Test Diagnosis of Mole Symptoms, Treatment
- Test Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Textile Dermatitis
- The Most Common Skin Problems, Home Remedies
- The Skin – Types, Structure, Layer, Functions
- Tinea Pedis Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Tinea Pedis Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention
- Tinea Pedis Prevention, Treatment, Home Remedies
- Tinea Pedis Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Tinea Pedis Treatment, Complication, Prevention
- Tinea Pedis, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Tinea Unguium, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Toxicodendron Dermatitis
- Traumatic Alopecia
- Traumatic Irritant Contact Dermatitis
- Treatment of Skin Diseases, Complication, Prevention
- Treatment Of Skin Mole, Home Remedies
- Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Triangular Alopecia
- Types of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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- Wallis-Type Palmoplantar Keratoderma with Congenital Alopecia
- What Are Different Types of Skin Diseases?
- What Is Impetigo ? Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- What Is The First Symptoms Of Skin Mole
- What Is The Latest Treatment Of Skin Mole
- What is The Main Cause of Eczema, Types, Treatment
- What Is The Main Causes of Nail Infection
- What Is The Main Causes of Skin Mole, Home Remedies
- What Is The Most Common Skin Disease
- What Is Urticaria Pigmentosa
- Which Symptoms of Skin Mole Indicate It Is Cancerous
- Which Test Confirm That It Is Cancerous Skin Mole
- Which Types Of Skin Mole Causes Cancer, Treatment
- White Patches On Skin – Causes, Symptoms And Home Remedies
- Winter Eczema
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Absence of Fingerprints–Congenital Milia Syndrome
Absence of fingerprints–congenital milia syndrome is a very rare genetic skin condition. Babies are born with no fingerprints on their fingers, palms, toes, or soles. Soon...
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Acid-induced Dermatitis
Acid-induced dermatitis is a skin condition caused by exposure to acids, which can be found in various household and industrial products. When the skin comes into...
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Acrylic Monomer Dermatitis
Acrylic Monomer Dermatitis is a skin condition that occurs when people come into contact with certain chemicals found in acrylic products, such as acrylic nails and...
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Acute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
Acute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus/The Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease, with multisystemic involvement. The disease has several phenotypes, with varying clinical presentations in...
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Acute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
Acute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (ACLE) is a type of lupus that affects the skin. Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks...
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Acute Vesiculobullous Hand Eczema
Acute Vesiculobullous Hand Eczema (AVHE) is a skin condition that primarily affects your hands. It’s a complex term, but it’s not as hard to understand as...
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African Blackwood Dermatitis
African Blackwood, scientifically known as Dalbergia melanoxylon, is a beautiful and valuable wood often used for making musical instruments, furniture, and various crafts. However, some people...
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Airbag Dermatitis
Airbag dermatitis is a skin condition that occurs due to an allergic reaction to chemicals found in airbags. Airbags, designed to save lives in automobile accidents,...
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Allergic Contact Dermatitis, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Allergic Contact Dermatitis/Contact dermatitis is an inflammatory eczematous skin disease. Contact dermatitis is a type of inflammation of the skin. It results from either exposure to allergens (allergic...
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Allergic Dermatitis
Allergic dermatitis is a common skin condition that occurs when the skin reacts to certain substances, leading to redness, itching, and inflammation. This condition is also...
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Alopecia (Hair Loss)
Alopecia means hair loss. It is not one single disease. It is a group of conditions where hair becomes thin, breaks easily, falls out in patches,...
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Cutis Verticis Gyrata
Cutis verticis gyrata is a rare skin condition of the scalp where the skin becomes thick and forms deep folds and grooves that look like the...
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Clouston’s Hidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
Clouston’s hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is a rare inherited skin and hair condition. It mainly affects the hair, nails and the thick skin on the palms of...
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Choroidal Atrophy–Alopecia Syndrome
Choroidal atrophy–alopecia syndrome is an extremely rare genetic condition in which a person has both damage and thinning of the choroid in the eye and loss...
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Pediatric Melanoma
Pediatric melanoma (also called childhood melanoma) is a cancer that starts in the pigment-making cells (melanocytes) of a child’s skin, eye, or very rarely inside the...
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Childhood Malignant Melanoma
Childhood malignant melanoma is a type of skin cancer that starts in pigment-making cells called melanocytes in a child or teenager. These cells give skin, hair,...
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Hutchinson Lupus Pernio Type i
Hutchinson lupus pernio type is an old name that doctors used for a special kind of skin lupus now called chilblain lupus erythematosus (CHLE). It is...
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Chilblain Lupus
Chilblain lupus is a rare type of lupus that mainly affects the skin of the fingers, toes, ears and nose. It causes red-purple, swollen, painful patches...
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Skin Ulcus Molle
Skin ulcus molle is the old Latin name for chancroid, also called soft chancre. It is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) that causes painful, soft...
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Hypertrichosis
Hypertrichosis is a condition where a person has too much hair growth compared with what is normal for their age, sex and ethnic group, and the...
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Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA)
Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) is a scarring type of hair loss. “Scarring” means the hair follicle (the tiny pocket that grows hair) gets damaged and...
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Primary Cutaneous CD4+/CD56+ Hematolymphoid Neoplasm
Primary cutaneous CD4+/CD56+ hematolymphoid neoplasm” is an older name that has mostly been replaced by blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN). It is a rare blood-cell...
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Bullous Impetigo
Bullous impetigo is a fast-spreading bacterial skin infection that makes large, fragile blisters filled with clear or yellow fluid. These blisters break easily and leave moist,...
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CYLD Cutaneous Syndrome
CYLD cutaneous syndrome (CCS) is a rare inherited condition in which people develop many small skin tumors—most often cylindromas, spiradenomas, and trichoepitheliomas—that start in the hair-follicle...
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Brooke–Spiegler Syndrome (CYLD Cutaneous Syndrome)
Brooke–Spiegler syndrome is a rare inherited condition that causes many small skin tumors to grow over time, most often on the scalp, face, and neck. These...
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Mucosynechia Atrophic Bullous Dermatitis
Mucosynechia atrophic bullous dermatitis that phrase is considered an old synonym for mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP), also called cicatricial pemphigoid—a rare autoimmune blistering disease that mainly...
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Absence of Fingerprints–Congenital Milia Syndrome
Absence of fingerprints–congenital milia syndrome is a very rare genetic skin condition. Babies are born with no fingerprints on their fingers, palms, toes, or soles. Soon...
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Wallis-Type Palmoplantar Keratoderma with Congenital Alopecia
Wallis-type palmoplantar keratoderma with congenital alopecia is a rare inherited skin and hair disorder. Babies are usually born with little or no scalp hair and very...
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Palmoplantar Keratoderma and Congenital Alopecia Type 2 (PPK-CA2)
Palmoplantar keratoderma and congenital alopecia type 2 (PPK-CA2) is a very rare, inherited skin and hair condition. Babies are born with little or no scalp hair...
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Ichthyosiform Erythroderma
Ichthyosiform erythroderma means the skin is red all over and covered with dry, scaling patches that look like fish scales. “Ichthyosiform” means “fish-scale-like,” and “erythroderma” means...
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Palmoplantar Keratoderma with Congenital Alopecia (PPK-CA)
Palmoplantar keratoderma with congenital alopecia (PPK-CA) is a rare, inherited skin-and-hair condition. Children are born with little to no scalp hair (congenital alopecia) and develop very...
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