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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 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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