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Descriptive Disease Names

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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 granulomaannular elastolytic giant cell granuloma

 

calciphylaxiscalcifying panniculitis of renal failure

 

Cockaynes syndromedwarfism with retinal atrophy and deafness

 

Cowden's syndromemultiple hamartoma syndrome

 

Dowling-Degos diseasereticulate pigmented anomoly of the flexures

 

granuloma fissuratumacanthoma fissuratum

 

Heerfordts syndromeuveoparotid fever

 

Kawasaki's diseasemucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

 

Klippel-Trenauney-Weber sxosteohypertrophic nevus flammeus

 

Mafuccis syndromedyschondroplasia with hemangiomata

 

Pyogenic Granulomalobular capillary hemangioma

 

Riehls Melanosisfemale facial melanosis

 

Rothmund-Thomson syndromepoikiloderma congenitale

 

Sturge-Weber syndromeencephalotrigeminal angiomatosis

 

Sweets syndromeacute febrile neutrophilic dermatoses

 

Unilateral Laterothoracic Exanthemasymmetric periflexural exanthem of childhood

 

Wilsons diseasehepatolenticular degeneration