Dermatology Update:

On the Scales of Importance

Paul Krusinski, MD

1. Metabolic (Endocrine) Disorders
   1. Addison’s Disease
   2. Diabetes Mellitus
      1. Diabetic Dermopathy
      2. Bullous Dermatosis of Diabetes
      3. Necrobiosis Lipoidica Diabeticorum
   3. Acanthosis Nigricans
   4. Pretibial myxedema
   5. Myxedema
   6. Xanthelasma
   7. Xanthomas
   8. Tophaceous gout
2. Vasculitis
   1. Small Vessel Vasculitis (palpable purpura)
      1. Leukocytoclastic vasculitis

1. Henoch-Schöelein Purpura (IgA); post infection
2. Hypersensitivity angitis
3. Collagen vascular diseases

1. Medium-sized Vessel Vasculitis
   1. Meningococcemia
   2. Purpura Fulminans
   3. Kawasaki disease

1. Infectious Diseases
   1. Erythema Infectiosum (Fifth disease)
      1. Human parvovirus B19
   2. Zoster
   3. Kaposi’s Varicelliform eruption
      1. Eczema herpeticum
   4. Secondary Syphilis
   5. Toxic Shock Syndrome
   6. Necrotizing fasciitis
2. Neoplastic Disorders
   1. Benign Tumors with Genodermatoses
      1. Neurofibromatosis
      2. Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
   2. Malignant Tumors
      1. Melanoma
         1. Congenital nevus
      2. Paget’s disease
      3. Leukemia Cutis

    

3. Rheumatologic Disorders
   1. Lupus Erythematosus
      1. Discoid (Chronic Cutaneous)
      2. Systemic

       

   2. Dermatomyositis
      1. Heliotrope Eyelids
      2. Gottrons Papules