PRIMARY LESIONS
LARGE BLISTER CONTAINING A WATERY FLUID SIMILAR TO A VESICLE REQ.MED REFERRAL
BULLA
ABNORMAL MASS VARING IN SIZE, SHAPE, AND COLOR ANY TYPE OF ABNORMAL MASS, NOT ALWAYS CANCER
TUMOR
OPEN LESION ON THE SKIN OR UCOUS MEMBRANE OFTHE BODY ACCOMPANIED BY LOSS OF SKIN DEPTH AND POSSIBLE WEEPING OF FLUIDS OR PUS
ULCER
DEAD CELLS THAT FORM OVER A WOUND OR BLEMISH WHILE HEALING, ACCUMULATION OF SEBUM AND PUS, SOMETIMES MIXED W/EPIDERMAL CELLS
CRUST
CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY SKIN DISORDER OF THE SEBACEOUS GLANDS THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY COMEDONES AND BLEMISHED
ACNE SIMPLEX OR ACNE VULGARIS
FLAT SPOT OR DISOLORATION ON THE SKIN
MACULE
CLOSED ABORMALLY DEVELOPED SAC THAT CONTAINS PUS, SEMIFLUID, OR MORBID MATTER ABOVE OR BELOW THE SKIN
CYST & TUBERCLE
A THICK CAR RESULTING FROM EXCESSIVE GROWTH OF FIBROUS TISSUE
KELOID
MORE SERIOUS THAN BASAL CELL CARCINOMA, CHARACTERIZED BY SCALY, RED OR PINK PAPULES OR NODULES
SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
SIMILAR TO OPEN COMEDONES, THESE ARE MAINLY SOLIDIFIED IMPACTIONS OF OIL WITHOUT THE CELL MATTER
SEBACEOUS FILAMENTS
A SMALL ELEVATION O THE SKIN THAT CONTAINS NO FLUID
PAPULE
A SOLID BUMP LARGER THAN 0.4 THAT CAN BE EASILY FELT
NODULE
SKIN SORE OR ABRASION PRODUCED BY SCRATCHING OR SCRAPING
EXCORIATION
SMALL BROWNISH SPOT ON THE SKIN RANGING IN COLOR FROM PALE TAN TO BROWN OR BLUISH BLACK
NORMAL MOLE
RED AND INFLAMED MANY COMEDONES, PAPULES AND PUSTULES
GRADE III
SMALL BLISTER OR SAC CONTAINING CLEAR FLUID, LYING WITHIN OR JUST BENEATH THE EPIDERMIS
VESICLE
RAISED, INFLAMED, PAPULE WITH A WHITE OR YELLOW CENTER CONTAINING PUS IN THE TOP OF THE LESION
PUSTULE
CRACK IN THE SKIN THAT PENETRATED THE DERMIS
FISSURE
MOST COMMON AND LEAST SEVERE TYPE OF SKIN CANCER WHICH OFTEN APPEARS AS LIGHT PEARLY NODULES CHARACTERISTICS INCLUDE SORES REDDISH PATCHES
BASAL CELL CARCINOMA
MINOR BREAKOUTS MOSTLY OPEN COMEDONES, SOME COLSED OEDONES, AND A FEW PAPULES
GRADE I
AN ITCHY, SWOLLEN LESION THAT AN BE CAUSED BY BLOW, SCRATCH, BITE OF AN INSECT OR URTIARIA
WHEAL
ANY MARK WOUND, OR ABMORMALITY IS A
LESION(S)
THIN, DRY OR OILY PLATE OF EPIDERMAL FLAKES
SCALE
MOST SERIOUS FORM OF SKI CANCER AS IT CAN SPREAD QUICKLY (METASTASIZE )
MALIGNANT MELANOMA
MANY CLOSED COMEDONES, MORE OPEN COMEDONES, AND OCCASIONAL PAPULES
GRADE II