Carbon stain
Medical condition
| Carbon stain | |
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| A carbon stain made from a puncture wound by a pencil (highlighted in circle). | |
| Specialty | Dermatology |
Carbon stains is a skin condition characterized by a discoloration of the skin from embedded carbon, usually occurring due to accidents with firearms or firecrackers, or from a puncture wound by a pencil. It may leave a permanent black mark of embedded graphite, easily mistaken for metastatic melanoma.[1]: 47
See also
- Soot tattoo
- List of cutaneous conditions
References
- ^ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
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Cutaneous keratosis, ulcer, atrophy, and necrobiosis
- keratoderma: Keratoderma climactericum
- Paraneoplastic keratoderma
- Acrokeratosis paraneoplastica of Bazex
- Aquagenic keratoderma
- Drug-induced keratoderma
- psoriasis
- Keratoderma blennorrhagicum
- keratosis: Seborrheic keratosis
- Keratosis punctata of the palmar creases
- other hyperkeratosis: Acanthosis nigricans
- Callus
- Ichthyosis acquisita
- Arsenical keratosis
- Chronic scar keratosis
- Hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans
- Hydrocarbon keratosis
- Hyperkeratosis of the nipple and areola
- Inverted follicular keratosis
- Lichenoid keratosis
- Multiple minute digitate hyperkeratosis
- PUVA keratosis
- Reactional keratosis
- Stucco keratosis
- Thermal keratosis
- Viral keratosis
- Warty dyskeratoma
- Waxy keratosis of childhood
- other hypertrophy: Keloid
- Hypertrophic scar
- Cutis verticis gyrata
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| Foreign body granuloma | |
| Other/ungrouped |
localized CTD
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| Skin ulcer | |
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