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Here we have a "wastebasket" of differential diagnoses of symptoms or signs that do not fit neatly into the other categories or for some or another reason are less useful:

 

hmtoggle_plus1Acral pain:
mercury poisoning (Pinks disease)
Fabry disease
erythromelalgia
reflex sympathetic dystrophy??
anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia?

 

hmtoggle_plus1Alopecia of lateral 1/3 of eyebrow:
lepromatous leprosy
hypothyroid
ulerythema (?)

 

hmtoggle_plus1Centripetal spread:
RMSF
atypical measles
acute GVHD

 

hmtoggle_plus1Facial Nerve Palsy:
Ramsey-Hunt syndrome
Heerfordts syndrome
Melkerson-Rosenthal syndrome

 

hmtoggle_plus1Hoarseness:
vesicles and erosions in larynx dystrophic EB
larynx infiltrated with hyaline material in lipoid proteinosis (may present in infancy with hoarseness)
relapsing polychondritis involvement of the cartilage of the respiratory tract

 

hmtoggle_plus1Koebner phenomenon:
lichen nitidus
LP
Psoriasis
vitiligo

 

hmtoggle_plus1Leonine facies:
lepromatous leprosy
CTCL
stage III rosacea
papular mucinosis
actinic reticuloid

 

hmtoggle_plus1Proptosis (exophthalmos):
Graves disease
Wegeners granulomatous (orbital granulomas)
NF 1: associated with sphenoid dysplasia (usually unilateral) or expanding optic glioma
Hands-Schuller-Christian disease

 

hmtoggle_plus1Saddle nose deformity:
relapsing polychondritis(?)
Wegeners granulomatosis
congenital syphilis

 

hmtoggle_plus1Soft tissue and bony (limb) hypertrophy ddx:
Proteus syndrome (characteristic plantar hyperplasia)
Klippel-Trenaunay-Webber syndrome
Mafucci syndrome

 

hmtoggle_plus1Umbilicated:
herpesvirus (HSV, zoster, VZV)
poxvirus (molluscum)
keratoacanthoma's
perforating granuloma annulare
other perforating disease
lymphomatoid papulosis (?)
papulonecrotic tuberculid (?)