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These diseases have similar names and are therefore easy to confuse with each other (especially when first learning them):

 

 

•Hyperkeratosis Lenticularis Perstand (i.e. Flegels disease)
•Dermatofibrosis Lenticularis Disseminata Buschke-Ollendorf Syndrome

 

 

•Buschke Ollendorf Syndrome
•Buschke Lowenstein Tumor

 

 

•Acquired Digital Fibrokeratoma
•Infantile Digital Fibromatosis

 

 

•Acrokeratosis Verruciformis of Hopf
•Focal Acral Hyperkeratosis
•Acrokeratoelastoidosis of Costa
•Keratoelastoidosis marginalis

(these 4 are also a ddx clinically with: verruca plana, colloid milium, and epidermodysplasia verruciformis)

 

•Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia
•Waldenstrom's hypergammaglobulinemic purpura

 

•focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck’s disease)
•Oral Florid Papillomatosis (Verrucous CA)

 

•Kimura’s disease
•Kitamura’s disease
•Kikuchi’s disease

 

•ecthyma gangrenosum (pseudomonas; critically ill)
•ecthyma contagiosum (orf)
•ecthyma (strep)