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  • Salmon patch (including stork bite)     (Last Updated: 27/11/2014)
  • Sarcoid     (Last Updated: 30/09/2015)
  • Sarcoma     (Last Updated: 19/09/2013)
  • Scabies     (Last Updated: 20/12/2016)
  • Scarlet fever (syn. scarlatina)     (Last Updated: 30/01/2014)
  • Scars - hypertrophic and keloid     (Last Updated: 27/01/2017)
  • Schamberg disease     (Last Updated: 17/06/2015)
  • Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia) - Katayama fever     (Last Updated: 09/11/2015)
  • Schwannoma (syn. neurilemmoma)     (Last Updated: 22/08/2014)
  • Scleredema     (Last Updated: 27/05/2016)
  • Scleroderma (syn. morphoea)     (Last Updated: 15/12/2016)
  • Scleromyxoedema     (Last Updated: 01/06/2016)
  • Scrofuloderma     (Last Updated: 29/10/2015)
  • Scrotal calcinosis     (Last Updated: 02/06/2016)
  • Sebaceous adenoma and sebaceomas     (Last Updated: 30/06/2013)
  • Sebaceous carcinoma     (Last Updated: 30/06/2013)
  • Sebaceous gland hyperplasia     (Last Updated: 27/11/2014)
  • Seborrhoeic eczema     (Last Updated: 20/12/2016)
  • Seborrhoeic keratosis (syn. seborrhoeic wart, basal cell papilloma)     (Last Updated: 20/12/2016)
  • Sézary syndrome     (Last Updated: 30/07/2015)
  • Shagreen patch     (Last Updated: 27/08/2013)
  • Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule     (Last Updated: 24/09/2013)
  • Sjögren’s syndrome     (Last Updated: 25/06/2015)
  • Skin swabs     (Last Updated: 19/09/2012)
  • Skin tag (syn. achrochordon; fibroepithelial polyp)     (Last Updated: 27/11/2014)
  • Sneddon’s syndrome     (Last Updated: 18/06/2015)
  • Solar elastosis (syn. actinic elastosis)     (Last Updated: 19/05/2016)
  • Solar lentigo     (Last Updated: 02/02/2017)
  • Solitary circumscribed neuroma (syn. palisaded encapsulated neuroma)     (Last Updated: 27/11/2014)
  • South African tick typhus (or African tick-bite fever)     (Last Updated: 09/11/2015)
  • Speckled lentiginous naevus (syn. naevus spilus)     (Last Updated: 27/11/2014)
  • Spider telangiectases (syn. spider naevus)     (Last Updated: 19/01/2013)
  • Spiradenoma (syn. eccrine spiradenoma)     (Last Updated: 30/06/2013)
  • Spitz naevus (including pigmented spindle cell naevus of Reed)     (Last Updated: 23/06/2015)
  • Squamous cell carcinoma     (Last Updated: 09/02/2017)
  • Staphylococcal Scalded Skin syndrome (syn. Ritter disease; staphylococcal epidermal necrolysis)     (Last Updated: 26/11/2015)
  • Steatocystoma multiplex     (Last Updated: 10/05/2016)
  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome     (Last Updated: 28/11/2014)
  • Still’s disease     (Last Updated: 17/05/2015)
  • Strawberry naevus and other infantile haemangioma     (Last Updated: 28/11/2014)
  • Striae (syn. stretch marks)     (Last Updated: 07/07/2016)
  • Stucco keratosis     (Last Updated: 28/11/2014)
  • Sturge-Weber syndrome     (Last Updated: 19/01/2013)
  • Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus     (Last Updated: 14/05/2015)
  • Subcorneal pustular dermatosis (syn. Sneddon-Wilkinson disease)     (Last Updated: 20/01/2015)
  • Subungual exostosis     (Last Updated: 07/05/2016)
  • Subungual haematoma     (Last Updated: 02/05/2016)
  • Sweet’s syndrome (syn. acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis; Gomm-Button disease)     (Last Updated: 23/02/2015)
  • Sycosis barbae     (Last Updated: 28/11/2014)
  • Syphilis     (Last Updated: 30/07/2015)
  • Syringocystadenoma papilliferum     (Last Updated: 30/06/2013)
  • Syringoma (syn. syringocystadenoma, syringocystoma)     (Last Updated: 30/06/2013)
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus     (Last Updated: 14/05/2015)
  • Systemic sclerosis     (Last Updated: 02/06/2016)
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