Conditions Managed by Dermatologists

Dermatologists specialize in a wide variety of conditions involving the skin, hair and nails.   These conditions may be primary conditions of the skin, or be a cutaneous manifestation of systemic diseases.  Learn more about dermatologists.

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Disorders Presenting in the Skin and Mucous Membranes

Disorders of the Sebaceous and Apocrine Glands

• Ace vulgaris, cystic acne

• Rosacea

• Perioral dermatitis

• Hidradenitis suppurativa

Disorders of the Hair Follicles

• Alopecia (alopecia areata, androgenetic alopecia, telogen effluvium, anagen effluvium, scarring alopecia)

• Infectious folliculitis

• Hirsutism and hypertrichosis

Eczema (Dermatitis)

• Contact dermatitis

• Atopic dermatitis

• Lichen simplex chronicus

• Seborrheic dermatitis

• Asteatotic dermatitis

• Nummular eczema

• Dyshidrotic eczmatous dermatitis

Disorders of Cell Kinetics and Differentiation

• Psoriasis

• Palmoplantar pustulosis

• Generalized acute pustular psoriasis (von Zumbusch)

• Ichthyosiform dermatoses (ichthyosis vulgaris, ichthyosis in the newborn)

Miscellaneous Inflammatory Disorders

• Pityriasis rosea

• Grover's disease

• Kyrie's disease

Benign Neoplasms and Hyperplasias

• Disorders of Malanocytes (melanocytic nevi, halo nevomelanocytic nevus, blue nevus, spitz nevus, nevus spilus, Mongolian spot, nevus of Ota)

• Disorders of Blood Vessels (port-wine stain, capillary hemangioma of infancy, cherry angioma, venous lake, angiokeratoma, spider angioma, pyogenic granuloma, glomus tumour, angiokeratoma)

• Mucocutaneous Cysts and Pseudocysts (epidermoid cyst, epidermal inclusion cyst, trichilemmal cyst, digital myxoid cyst, milium)

• Other Miscellaneous Benign Neoplasms and Hyperplasias (seborrheic keratosis, dermatofibroma, skin tag, keratoacanthoma, keloids, trichoepithelioma, syringoma, lipoma, sebaceous hyperplasia)

Melanomas and Its Precursors

• Cutaneous melanoma and precursors

• Congenital nevomelanocytic nevus

• Lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma

• Desmorplastic melanoma

• Superficial spreading melanoma

• Nodular melanoma

• Acral lentiginous melanoma

• Malignant melanoma arising in a congenital nevocellular nevus

Precancerous Lesions and Cutaneous Carcinomas

• Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)

• Oral leukoplakia

• Radiation dermatitis

Photosensitivity and Photoinduced Disorders

• Sunburns

• "Photoaging" (dermatoheliosis)

• Solar lentigo

• Solar keratosis

• Phytophotodermatitis (plant + light = dermatitis)

• Drug-induced photosensitivity

• Porphyria cutanea tarda

• Polymorphous light eruptions

Disorders of Pigmentation

• Vitiligo

• Albinism

• Melasma

• Genital lentiginoses

• Pigmented purpuric dermatoses

• Becker's nevus

Non-infective Inflammatory Skin Disorders

• Lichen planus

• Granuloma annulare

• Morphea

• Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus