At times in dermatology there are several names for the same disease, and the most commonly used name is not necessarily the best descriptive name for that disease:
Common name: | More descriptive alternate name: |
actinic granuloma | annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma |
calciphylaxis | calcifying panniculitis of renal failure |
Cockayne’s syndrome | dwarfism with retinal atrophy and deafness |
Cowden's syndrome | multiple hamartoma syndrome |
Dowling-Degos disease | reticulate pigmented anomoly of the flexures |
granuloma fissuratum | acanthoma fissuratum |
Heerfordts syndrome | uveoparotid fever |
Kawasaki's disease | mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome |
Klippel-Trenauney-Weber sx | osteohypertrophic nevus flammeus |
Mafucci’s syndrome | dyschondroplasia with hemangiomata |
Pyogenic Granuloma | lobular capillary hemangioma |
Riehl’s Melanosis | female facial melanosis |
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome | poikiloderma congenitale |
Sturge-Weber syndrome | encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis |
Sweet’s syndrome | acute febrile neutrophilic dermatoses |
Unilateral Laterothoracic Exanthem | asymmetric periflexural exanthem of childhood |
Wilson’s disease | hepatolenticular degeneration |
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