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

Infective Conditions of the Skin

Bacterial Infections of the Skin

• Abscess, furuncle and carbuncle

• Impetigo, ecthyma

• Erythrasma

• Erysipeloid

• Pitted keratolysis

Systemic Bacterial Infections with Skin Signs

• Infective endocarditis

• Gram-positive infections (toxic shock syndrome, staphylcoccal scalded skin syndrome, scarlet fever, cellulitis, erysipelas)

• Gram-negative infections (meningococcaemia, cat-scratch disease, ecthyma gangrenosum and cutaneous pseudomonas aeruginosa infections)

• Mycobacterial infections (leprosy, cutaneus tuberculosis, cutaneous atypical mycobacterial infections)

• Lyme borreliosis

Fungal Infections of the Skin, Hair and Nails

• Tinea infections of the skin (tinea pedis, tinea manuum, tinea cruris, tinea corporis, tinea facialis)

• Tinea infections of the scalp, beard baring skin (tinea capitis, tinea barbae)

• Onychomycosis and tinea unguium

• Pityriasis versicolor

• Candidiasis

Systemic Fungal Infections

• Mycetoma

• Chromoblastomycosis

• Sporotrichosis

• Histoplasmosis

• Disseminated cryptococcosis

• Disseminated coccidioidomycosis

Viral Infections

• Cutaneous viral infections (molluscum contagiosum, human papillomavirus infections)

• Systemic viral infections (rubella, measles, hand foot and mouth disease, varicella zoster (chicken pox, herpes zoster), herpes simplex virus infections, kawasaki's disease, exanthema subitum, erythema infectiosum)

Insect Bites and Infestations

• Scabies, cutaneous larva migrans, cutaneous reaction to bedbug bites and flea bites, myiasis, pediculosis capitis and pubis

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• Neisseria gonorrhoeae, syphilis, chancroid, donovanosis, lymphogranuloma venerum, herpes simplex virus infection, human papillomavirus infection,

• Mucosal Manifestation of HIV (eosinophilic folliculitis, Kaposi's sarcoma, oral hairy leukoplakia, bacillary angiomatosis, herpes simplex virus infection, varicella zoster infection)

Dermatological Skin Signs in Systemic Diseases

• Immune, Autoimmune, Rheumatic Diseases (urticaria, angioedema, systemic amyloidosis, dermatomyositis, dermatitis herpetiformis, erythema multiforme syndrome, erythema nodosum syndrome, levido reticularis, lupus erythematosus, graft-versus-host disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), cutaneous lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, Raynaud's disease, vasculitis, Reiter's syndrome, pyoderma gangrenosum, bullous pemphigoid, pemphigus vulgaris, sarcoidosis)

• Genetic, Metabolic, Endocrine and Nutritional Diseases (necrobiosis lipoidica and calciphylaxis associated with diabetes mellitus, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism and myxedema, scurvy, tuberous scerosis, neurofibromatosis, xanthomas, Cushing's syndrome)

• Vascular Insufficiency (chronic venous insufficiency, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers)

• Skin Signs of Systemic Cancers (Acanthosis Nigricans, Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome, mammary paget's disease, extramammary paget's disease, Cowden's syndrome, metastatic cancers to the skin

• Hematological Disease (thrombocytopenic purpura, disseminated intravascular coagulation)

• Cutaneous Lymphomas, Leukemias etc (adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, cutaneous B-cell lymphoma, langerhans cell histiocytosis, mastocytosis syndromes etc)

• Adverse Drug Reactions (fixed drug eruption, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Toxis Epidermal Necrolysis, urticaria, angioedema, exanthematous drug eruption, necrosis from warfarin, drug-induced pigmentation)