A-Z of Clinical Guidance

If you are certain of the diagnosis please use the quick links below (A-Z of the top 20 & the full A-Z list) to get directly to the relevant guidance. If there are diagnostic uncertainties you may wish to use the following diagnostic tables:

• General dermatology (rashes etc)
• Skin lesions

A-Z of the top 20 most important / common skin conditions

• Acne
• Actinic keratoses
• Basal cell carcinoma
• Bowens disease
• Drug reactions (adverse cutaneous drug reactions)
• Eczema
• Leg ulcers
• Melanoma
• Pityriasis rosea
• Pityriasis versicolor
• Pruritus
• Psoriasis
• Rosacea
• Seborrhoeic dermatitis
• Scabies
• Seborrhoeic keratoses
• Squamous cell carcinoma
• Tinea
• Urticaria
• Warts

The full A-Z list

• Acne
• Actinic keratosis (syn. solar keratosis)
• Actinic prurigo
• Angioedema
• Angioma (syn. haemangioma)
• Angiokeratoma
• Angiolymphoid hyperplasia
• Angioma serpiginosum
• Angiosarcoma
• Appendage tumours
• Basal cell carcinoma (BCC)
• Bowen’s disease
• Blue rubber bleb naevus syndrome
• Chondermatitis nodularis helicis
• Chronic actinic dermatitis
• Clear cell acanthoma
• Cryotherapy (liquid nitrogen)
• Cutanous horn
• Dermatofibroma
• Drug reactions
• Eczema
  1. Atopic eczema (including food allergy and eczema herpeticum)
  2. Atopic scalp eczema
  3. Discoid eczema
  4. Gravitational eczema
  5. Asteatotic eczema
  6. Hand dermatitis
  7. Contact allergic dermatitis
  8. Napkin dermatitis
• Ephelis (syn. freckle)
• Epidermoid cyst (syn. sebaceous cyst)
• Giant comedone
• Glomus tumour
• Hydroa vacciniforme
• Infantile haemangioma (including strawberry naevus)
• Juvenile Spring Eruption
• Kaposi’s sarcoma
• Keratoacanthoma
• Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome
• Leg ulcers
• Lentigo
• Lichen planus
• Lentigo maligna
• Lymphangioma circumscriptum
• Melanoma
• Molluscum contagiosum
• Naevi
  
  1. Atypical (dysplastic) melanocytic naevus
  2. Blue naevus
  3. Becker's naevus
  4. Benign melanocytic naevus
  5. Cockade naevus
  6. Combined naevus
  7. Congenital melanocytic naevi
  8. Halo naevus
  9. Naevus anaemicus
  10. Pigmented spindle cell naevus of Reed
  11. Sebaceous naevus
  12. Spitz naevus
• Paget's disease of the nipple
• Perioral Dermatitis
• Photo-dermatoses
• Pilomatricoma
• Pityriasis rosea
• Pityriasis versicolor
• Polymorphic light eruption
• Porphyria
• Port-wine stain
• Pruritus
• Psoriasis
• Pyogenic granuloma
• Rosacea
• Salmon patch
• Scabies
• Seborrhoeic dermatitis
• Seborrhoeic keratosis
• Skin fragility syndrome
• Skin tag (syn. fibroepithelial polyp)
• Solar urticaria
• Spider naevus
• Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)
• Stevens Johnson Syndrome
• Sturge-Weber Syndrome
• Sunbeds
• Sunscreens
• Talon noir
• Tinea
• Toxic epidermal necrolysis
• Urticaria
• UV protection
• Vascular naevi
• Venous lake
• Viral warts
• Weathering Nodules