color atlas of your skin

8/9/2019 Color Atlas of Your Skin

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Genital wart can betran minedb tween exualpartn r .

borrIJei k rata i . a '"barnacl oi Ii i . ia beni n growth. Often. many are pre emon the trunk.

Be ause it i oiten tan or brown.eborr/reic keratosican be conntS d withmelanoma. It cane\'en becomeirritat d. as inthi ca e wherethe keralO i ireddened aroundthe edge.

Wart around the fingernail, or periun ual wart, hould be biop ied if ithas b n pre em for mor than tenyear . a ionally, the e particularwart can change imo kin cancer.

What you might noti first about difier m marks and pot on your kin i thcolor. Thi atlas pr n full-color phOlO raph oi common kin conditionand. in orne ca . the r ul oi rreaunem. I i you noti a pot on your kinthat you think may be kin can r and i imilar lO phOlO raph in thition. your d lOr promptly.

C th i m tri rul r lO measure your Ie ion oi con rn.

Copyright 2000, David J. Leffell. MD. All rights reserved.


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Rosa lofthe no iea i1y treatedby la er.

un dama in a fair- kinn dindh;dual howin hrok nblood \. I . redne . andrough un po call da tinic kerato

Lif:erpoc . or

lenti40s.ar b nignrowths. If a

change in olori noted and thepot ha been pre ent

for a long period of t ime, i t hould be biop ied COmake sure it i not an early form of melanoma.

uperficial basalcell cancer canr emble eczema,o any ra h of thior r that doe notre olve wi th topicaltreatment houJdbe biop ied.



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Sodlliar ba al cell cancer tar ts very mall, appearin as abump that bleeds 0 asionally or do not completely heal.

,\lorpheafonn ba al cell cancer,al 0 called aggre i\'e-growth basalcell cancer, ha root that extendund r the u rfa ce of the kin. It isoften Jar er than it appear on the

urface and can be d el ay ed in diagno i becau e it re embles a car inappearance.

Cfllamous cell cancer usually has aslightly rough surface and. like basalcell cancer, may bleed.

Actinic keratosis is aprecancerous growth thatoccur on un-danlaged

kin. It is rough or scaly,raised, and usually red.



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, 'ormal mole . '0( r uJar bord rs

and e\ 'en pi menmtion.. - \ ~ p i c a l ne'Cli . or mole. h

i r r uJar pigmentation and border.

Cafe-all-Iait spot, a non-cancerousflat. tan rowth. may b removed

with la er treatment.

Len ti ~ l i la I i / lCI.\ ' ryearly.

hi hly treatablemelanoma on theface. ~ I t ofteneen in area ofun expo ure.

AcrClI l e n t i ~ i / l o l l smelCl/loma e n on the

ole, demon tratingirre uJar border.

llperficial s p r e C l d i l 1 ~ meicmollla.demon trating a ymmetryof growth.



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Patient witb manyatypical moles.Individuals with thismany moles should bemonitored closely by theirdermatologist.

i\odular melan01naon the earlobedemon tratingvery dark color

(black in this case).

Brown streak in fingernailthat could representmelanoma. Although sucha streak is common inmore darkly pigmentedindividuals, if you developa pigmented band like this,see your dermatologistimmediately.

Broken capillaryon the nose of a child.

Same child, after treatmentwith the pulsed dye laser.



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Gro\\in h mal16;oma or blood \'e eltumor on the eyelid oi a chi ld,

Port wine tain birthmark of the face

H man ioma re 01\' dafter \' ry arlytr atm n t \\;th the puls d dy r,

\.fter treatment with the pul ed dyelaser, showin di app arance

of birthmark

Port wine tain in an adultdi appearing with laser treatment.



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Wrinkles due to Sti l l damage.This patient only wanted cheek

wrinkles treated.ame individual two months

after laser resurfacing. ote residualpink color that will resolve with time.

~ l i c r o p e e l freshenssurface of kin.

Sunscreen, usedto spell the wordhere, is effectivesun protection.



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Rhinophyma. a ondition in whichth oil ands of the no nlar e

r ultin in di fi uremem

Brokencapillarieof rosacea ,.. . ., ...can bucce fullytreated by laser.

"itiligo patch on face with mall graft usedin Flip-Top tran plantation technique.

Aft r ulptin \\;tharbon dioxide las r.

arne individual with increa ingly normalpigmentation in previous area of vitili 0 a aresult of tran plantation of pigment cells.The pigmentation will continue to even out.


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