Painful skin lesions
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Painful skin lesions have a limited differential diagnosis.
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Micrograph of a painful skin lesion (glomus tumour).
Many are vascular (e.g. glomus tumour) or have a prominent vascular component (e.g. spiradenoma); think "throbbing blood vessels".
Several of are or neural origin; think "tweaked nerves".
A common memory device
- Blue rubber bleb nevus.
- Angiolipoma.
- Neurofibroma or neuroma.
- Glomus tumour.
- Eccrine spiradenoma.
- Leiomyoma.
An alternate memory device
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