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Skin Ulcer
Aka: Skin Ulcer, Skin Erosion, Skin Ulceration, Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Ulceration- Definitions
- Differential Diagnosis: Erosion
- Dermatophyte infection or Candidiasis
- Eczematous Dermatitis
- Herpes Simplex Virus
- Intertrigo
- Excoriations (include Neurotic Excoriations)
- Aging Skin
- Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
- Vesicles and Bullae
- Differential Diagnosis: Ulceration
- See Oral Ulcer
- See Genital Ulcer
- External Skin Injury
- Skin Trauma
- Skin picking
- Envenomation (e.g. Brown Recluse Spider Bite)
- Decubitus Ulcer
- Bacterial Skin Infection
- Streptococcus (e.g. Ecthyma)
- Staphylococcus (e.g. Impetigo)
- Pseudomonas
- Treponema pallidum (Syphilis)
- Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli Ulcer)
- Haemophilus ducreyi (Chancroid)
- Viral Skin Infections
- Herpes Simplex Virus
- Coxsachievirus
- Fungal Skin Infections
- Coccidiomycosis
- Mucormycosis
- Parasitic Skin Infections
- Medium or Small Vessel Vasculitis
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Microangiopathic Vasculitis
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (previously known as Wegener's Granulomatosis)
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Necrobiosis Lipoidica (associated with Diabetes Mellitus)
- Vascular insufficiency
- Skin Inflammation (Neutrophilic dematoses)
- Skin Neoplasm
- Non-Melanoma skin cancer (Basal Cell Skin Cancer, Squamous Cell Skin Cancer)
- References
- Jhun and DeClerck in Herbert (2015) EM:Rap 15(8): 19-20