Nevus flammeus (port wine stain): congenital erythema in the facial region (capillary vascular malformation), localized in V2 distribution, completely without symptoms; control image after 4 years
Airborne Contact Dermatitis. 2-week-old, very itchy and burning, flat, blurred eczema reaction in the area of the unclothed areas shown here. upper eyelids, retroauricular region, chin and neck region are also flatly eczematized. the changes began abruptly in the 2nd week of May.
Dermatitis, chronic actinic. detail enlargement: Disseminated, scratched papules and nodules as well as blurred, large-area, reddened, severely itching erythema in the face of a 51-year-old female patient with atopic eczema existing since birth.
Ulerythema ophryogenes: Extensive erythema in the area of the eyebrows in the case of incipient eyebrow rapairs; at higher magnification evidence of follicular papules.
Rosacea papulopustulosa: disseminated, intermittent papules and pustules that persist for weeks on reddened skin (questionable pretreatment with a glucocorticoid externum); variable feeling of tension of the facial skin.
Dermatitis chronic actinic (type actinic reticuloid): Large-area, severe itching, eczematous clinical picture of the face, which appeared in spring after a short UV exposure and now persisted for several months. Massive lichenification of the skin (see radial lip furrows) as an expression of the chronic inflammatory remodelling of the thickened skin.
Angiosarcoma of the skin of the head and face. flat, smooth, asymptomatic, chronically dynamic, slowly growing, red plaques without epidermal involvement in a 68-year-old man.
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