Painful skin lesions

Painful skin lesions are Blue ANGEL:

• Blue rubber bleb nevus.
• Angiolipoma.
• Neurofibroma or neuroma.
• Glomus tumour.
• Eccrine spiradenoma.
• Leiomyoma.

Notice that many of these are vascular (e.g. glomus tumor) or have a prominent vascular component (e.g. spiradenoma) - throbbing blood vessels. Several of these are or neural origin - tweaked nerves.

Alternate

An alternate is LEND AN EGG:

• Leiomyoma.
• Eccrine spiradenoma.
• Neuroma.
• Dermatofibroma.
• Angiolipoma.
• Neurilemmoma.
• Endometrioma.
• Glomus tumour.
• Granular cell tumour.

See also

• Dermatopathology.
• Non-malignant skin disease.
• Dermatologic cancer.