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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)

 

Kimuras disease
Kitamuras disease
Kikuchis disease

 

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