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  • Cafe-au-lait patch     (Last Updated: 14/04/2013)
  • Calcification of the skin and subcutaneous tissues (syn. calcinosis cutis)     (Last Updated: 08/12/2016)
  • Calcinosis cutis     (Last Updated: 02/06/2016)
  • Calciphylaxis     (Last Updated: 21/12/2014)
  • Campbell de Morgan spots     (Last Updated: 19/01/2013)
  • Candidal infection (syn. candidiasis; candidosis; moniliasis)     (Last Updated: 15/08/2016)
  • Capillaritis     (Last Updated: 17/06/2015)
  • Carbuncles     (Last Updated: 03/11/2014)
  • Carcinoid syndrome     (Last Updated: 19/08/2016)
  • Carcinoma cuniculatum (syn. epithelioma cuniculatum, verrucous carcinoma)     (Last Updated: 01/11/2014)
  • Cellulitis, erysipelas, and necrotising fasciitis     (Last Updated: 06/07/2016)
  • Chancroid     (Last Updated: 09/11/2015)
  • Chickenpox (syn. varicella)     (Last Updated: 23/02/2014)
  • Chikungunya     (Last Updated: 09/11/2015)
  • Chilblains     (Last Updated: 10/08/2015)
  • Child abuse and domestic violence - cutaneous features     (Last Updated: 18/08/2016)
  • Childhood granulomatous periorificial dermatitis (syn. facial Afro-Caribbean childhood eruption)     (Last Updated: 09/05/2016)
  • Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis     (Last Updated: 08/11/2016)
  • Chronic actinic dermatitis     (Last Updated: 08/11/2016)
  • Chronic bullous disease of childhood     (Last Updated: 16/10/2014)
  • Chronic superficial scaly dermatitis syn. parapsoriasis; digitate dermatosis     (Last Updated: 24/04/2017)
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome (syn. allergic granulomatous angiitis)     (Last Updated: 27/06/2015)
  • Cicatricial alopecia     (Last Updated: 17/12/2013)
  • Clear cell acanthoma of Degos     (Last Updated: 23/11/2014)
  • Clubbing     (Last Updated: 02/05/2016)
  • Cockade naevus (syn. Naevus en cocarde)     (Last Updated: 27/12/2014)
  • Combined naevus     (Last Updated: 27/12/2014)
  • Comedo naevus (syn. comedone naevus; naevus comedonicus; follicular naevus)     (Last Updated: 16/04/2015)
  • Condylomata acuminata     (Last Updated: 14/09/2013)
  • Confluent and reticulate papillomatosis (syn. Gougerot-Carteaud syndrome)     (Last Updated: 09/12/2015)
  • Congenital melanocytic naevus     (Last Updated: 24/04/2017)
  • Connective tissue disorders - an overview     (Last Updated: 06/07/2016)
  • Corns and callosities (syn. calluses)     (Last Updated: 06/07/2016)
  • Costal fringe     (Last Updated: 19/01/2013)
  • Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy     (Last Updated: 19/07/2013)
  • Cowden syndrome (syn. multiple hamartoma syndrome)     (Last Updated: 30/06/2013)
  • Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis     (Last Updated: 27/06/2015)
  • Cryoproteins     (Last Updated: 19/09/2012)
  • Cryptococcus     (Last Updated: 22/07/2015)
  • Cryptosporidiosis     (Last Updated: 22/07/2015)
  • Cutaneous horn     (Last Updated: 24/04/2017)
  • Cutaneous larva migrans     (Last Updated: 09/11/2015)
  • Cutaneous leiomyoma     (Last Updated: 01/11/2014)
  • Cutaneous lymphoma     (Last Updated: 24/11/2014)
  • Cutaneous metastases     (Last Updated: 06/07/2015)
  • Cutaneous small vessel vasculitis (syn. leucocytoclastic vasculitis)     (Last Updated: 27/06/2015)
  • Cutis laxa     (Last Updated: 02/07/2016)
  • Cylindroma     (Last Updated: 30/06/2013)
  • Cytomegalovirus     (Last Updated: 22/07/2015)
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