Painful skin lesions
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Micrograph of a painful skin lesion (glomus tumour).
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 rubber bleb nevus.
- Angiolipoma.
- Neurofibroma or neuroma.
- Glomus tumour.
- Eccrine spiradenoma.
- Leiomyoma.
An alternate memory device
LEND AN EGG:[2]
- Leiomyoma.
- Eccrine spiradenoma.
- Neuroma.
- Dermatofibroma.
- Angiolipoma.
- Neurilemmoma.
- Endometrioma.
- Glomus tumour.
- Granular cell tumour.
See also
References
- ↑ URL: http://www.dermpathmd.com/mnemonics/mnemonics_neoplasms.htm. Accessed on: 27 July 2010.
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Naversen DN, Trask DM, Watson FH, Burket JM (February 1993). "Painful tumors of the skin: "LEND AN EGG"". J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 28 (2 Pt 2): 298–300. PMID 8436643.