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• Acne vulgaris, erythematous papule vs. Rosacea, erythematous papule
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• Acute discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
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• Allergic contact dermatitis vs. Irritant contact dermatitis
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• Allergic (leukocytoclastic) vasculitis vs. Septic vasculitis
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• Alopecia areata vs. Trichotillomania
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• Alopecia of discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Alopecia of lichen planus
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• Amputation neuroma secondary to supernumerary digit vs. Acquired digital fibrokeratoma
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• Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia vs. Angiosarcoma
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• Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia vs. Kimura's disease
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• Apocrine (clear-cell) hidradenoma vs. Eccrine (poroid) hidradenoma
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• Apocrine mixed tumor vs. Eccrine mixed tumor
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• Atrophic lichen planus vs. Atrophic discoid lupus erythematosus
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• Common baldness vs. Telogen effluvium
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• Darier's disease (keratosis follicularis) vs. Grover's disease (transient acantholytic dermatosis)
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• Dermatitis herpetiformis vs. Bullous pemphigoid
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• Dermatofibroma vs. Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
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• Dermatofibroma vs. Desmoplastic Spitz's nevus
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• Dermatofibroma, hemorrhagic papulo-nodule vs. Kaposi's sarcoma, hemorrhagic papulo-nodule
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• Dermatofibroma with "monster" cells vs. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
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• Dilated pore vs. Pilar sheath acanthoma
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• Discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Dermatomyositis
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• Discoid lupus erythematosus vs. Polymorphous light eruption
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• Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis vs. Plane wart
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• Erythema multiforme vs. Fixed drug eruption
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• Erythema multiforme vs. Graft-versus-host disease, acute phase
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• Erythema multiforme vs. Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (Mucha-Habermann disease)
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• Erythema multiforme vs. Toxic shock syndrome
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• Erythema nodosum vs. Nodular vasculitis
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• Erythroderma of psoriasis vs. Erythroderma of mycosis fungoides
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• Granular-cell tumor vs. Xanthoma
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• Granuloma annulare vs. Eruptive xanthoma
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• Granuloma annulare vs. Necrobiosis lipoidica
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• Granuloma annulare, interstitial type vs. Interstitial granulomatous dermatitis with arthritis
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• Guttate psoriasis vs. Guttate (dermatosis) parapsoriasis
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• Guttate psoriasis vs. Seborrheic dermatitis
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• Herpes simplex vs. Vaccinia
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• Ichthyosis vulgaris vs. X-linked ichthyosis
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• Infundibular cyst vs. Isthmus-catagen cyst
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• Infundibulo-folliculo-sebaceous cystic hamartoma vs. Steatocystoma
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• Insect "bite" vs. Lymphomatoid papulosis
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• Insect "Bite," Superficial vs. Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (PUPPP)
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• Interstitial granuloma annulare vs. Interstitial mycosis fungoides
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• Junctional melanocytic nevus vs. Melanoma in situ on sun-damaged skin of a face
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• Keloid vs. Hypertrophic scar
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• Keratoacanthomatous verruca vulgaris vs. Verrucous keratoacanthoma
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• Leukocytoclastic vasculitis vs. livedo vasculitis
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• Leukokeratosis vs. Leukoplakia
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• Lichen amyloidosis vs. Colloid milium
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• Lichen nitidus vs. Lichen striatus
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• Lichen planus vs. Lichen planus-like keratosis
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• Lichen planus vs. Lichenoid discoid lupus erythematosus
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• Lichen planus vs. lichenoid drug eruption
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• Lichen planus vs. Lichenoid secondary syphilis
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• Lichen planus-like keratosis vs. Solar keratosis with lichenoid infiltrate of lymphocytes
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• Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus vs. Chronic radiation dermatitis
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• Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus vs. Superficial morphea
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• Lichen simplex chronicus vs. Hypertrophic lichen planus
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• Lichenoid purpura (of Gougerot and Blum) vs. Mycosis fungoides (plaque stage)
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• Lupus erythematosus profundus vs. Panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma
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• Lupus profundus vs. Morphea profundus
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• Lymphocytoma cutis with lymphoid follicles vs. Follicular-cell lymphoma
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• Lymphomatoid papulosis vs. Mycosis fungoides, plaque
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• Metastatic carcinoma from a breast vs. Morpheiform basal-cell carcinoma
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• Morphea, late stage vs. Collagenous nevus
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• Mucha-Habermann vs. Lymphomatoid papulosis
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• Mucha-Habermann disease vs. Secondary syphilis
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• Mycosis fungoides, papular/plaque stage vs. Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, papular stage
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• Mycosis fungoides, plaque vs. Histiocytosis X, plaque
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• Necrobiosis lipoidica vs. Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma
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• Nevus verrucosus vs. Acanthosis nigricans
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• Nodular fasciitis vs. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
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• Nodular scabies vs. Lymphomatoid papulosis
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• Nodular vasculitis vs. Subcutaneous polyarteritis nodosa
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• Pagetoid Bowen's disease vs. Extramammary Paget's disease
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• Pale-cell acanthoma vs. Psoriasis, plaque expression
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• Papular Mucinosis vs Interstitial Granuloma Annulare
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• Pemphigus vulgaris vs. Benign familial chronic pemphigus Hailey-Hailey disease
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• Pemphigus vulgaris vs. Grover's disease, pemphigus vulgaris-like variant
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• Perforating Folliculitis vs. Elastosis Perforans Serpiginosa
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• Photoallergic dermatitis vs. Phototoxic dermatitis
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• Pityriasis lichenoides acuta vs. Pityriasis lichenoides chronica
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• Pityriasis rosea vs. Guttate dermatosis (mycosis fungoides) 
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• Porokeratotic epidermal nevus vs. Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus
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• Pretibial myxedema vs. Scleromyxedema
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• Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy vs. Herpes gestationis, urticarial stage
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• Pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia (as in a deep fungal infection) vs. Squamous-cell carcinoma
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• "Pseudolymphoma," B-cell type vs. Malignant lymphoma, B-cell type
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• Psoriasis vs. Nummular dermatitis 
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• Psoriasis vs. Pityriasis rubra pilaris
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• Psoriasis on volar skin vs. Dyshidrotic dermatitis
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• Pyogenic granuloma vs. Bacillary angiomatosis
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• Pyogenic granuloma, fully developed vs. Kaposi's sarcoma, nodular
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• Regression of lichen planus-like keratosis vs. Regression of primary cutaneous melanoma
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• Scleroderma (morphea) vs. Scleredema (Buschke)
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• Sebaceous hyperplasia vs. Nevus sebaceus of Jadassohn
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• Seborrheic keratosis, acanthotic type vs. Eccrine poroma
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• Solar keratosis vs. Bowen's disease
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• Spitz's nevus, compound type vs. Melanoma
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• Spongiotic dermatitis with simulation of Pautrier's collections vs. Mycosis fungoides with Pautrier's collections
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• Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (expression of toxic epidermal necrolysis) vs. Erythema multiforme (expression of toxic epidermal necrolysis)
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• Subcutaneous granuloma annulare vs. Rheumatoid nodule
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• Surface of dermatofibroma affiliated with follicular germs vs. Surface of superficial basal-cell carcinoma
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• Syringocystadenoma papilliferum vs. Hidradenoma papilliferum
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• Trichoadenoma vs. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma
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• Trichoblastoma, small nodular type vs. Basal-cell carcinoma, small nodular type
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• Trichoblastoma, small nodular type vs. Trichoblastoma, large nodular type
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• Trichoblastoma, trichoepitheliomatous type vs. Trichoblastic (basal-cell) carcinoma, nodular type
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• Trichoepithelioma vs. Infundibulocystic basal-cell carcinoma
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• Trichotillomania (developed fully) vs. Traction alopecia (end stage)
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• Tuberculoid leprosy vs. Sarcoidosis
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• Urticaria vs. Urticarial lesions of bullous pemphigoid
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• Urticarial reaction to an arthropod assault vs. Urtica
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• Verruca vulgaris vs. Verrucous solar keratosis
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• Verrucous seborrheic keratosis vs. verrucous epidermal nevus
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• Xanthogranuloma vs. Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma
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• Xanthogranuloma vs. Reticulohistiocytic granuloma
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• Xanthomatous dermatofibroma vs. Xanthomatous malignant fibrous histiocytoma
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