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'''Painful skin lesions''' are '''Blue ANGEL''':<ref>URL: [http://www.dermpathmd.com/mnemonics/mnemonics_neoplasms.htm http://www.dermpathmd.com/mnemonics/mnemonics_neoplasms.htm]. Accessed on: 27 July 2010.</ref><ref name=pmid8436643>{{cite journal |author=Naversen DN, Trask DM, Watson FH, Burket JM |title=Painful tumors of the skin: "LEND AN EGG" |journal=J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. |volume=28 |issue=2 Pt 2 |pages=298–300 |year=1993 |month=February |pmid=8436643 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | '''Painful skin lesions''' have a limited differential diagnosis. | ||
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 ANGEL''':<ref>URL: [http://www.dermpathmd.com/mnemonics/mnemonics_neoplasms.htm http://www.dermpathmd.com/mnemonics/mnemonics_neoplasms.htm]. Accessed on: 27 July 2010.</ref><ref name=pmid8436643>{{cite journal |author=Naversen DN, Trask DM, Watson FH, Burket JM |title=Painful tumors of the skin: "LEND AN EGG" |journal=J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. |volume=28 |issue=2 Pt 2 |pages=298–300 |year=1993 |month=February |pmid=8436643 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
*[[Blue rubber bleb nevus|'''Blue''' rubber bleb nevus]]. | *[[Blue rubber bleb nevus|'''Blue''' rubber bleb nevus]]. | ||
*[[angiolipoma|'''A'''ngiolipoma]]. | *[[angiolipoma|'''A'''ngiolipoma]]. | ||
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*[[leiomyoma|'''L'''eiomyoma]]. | *[[leiomyoma|'''L'''eiomyoma]]. | ||
==An alternate memory device== | |||
'''LEND AN EGG''':<ref name=pmid8436643/> | |||
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*[[Leiomyoma]]. | *[[Leiomyoma]]. | ||
*[[Eccrine spiradenoma]]. | *[[Eccrine spiradenoma]]. | ||