Differential Diagnosis
Common
- Vascular disorders
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Deep venous thrombosis (DVT)
- Dermatologic disorders
- Contact dermatitis
- Insect stings or bites, or other envenemation
- Drug reactions
- Eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells syndrome)
- Sweet syndrome
- Rheumatic disorders
- Immunologic disorders
- Erythromelalgia
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Malignant disorders
- Carcinoma erysipelatoides
- Familial disorders
- Familial Mediterranean fever
- Familial Hibernian fever
- Foreign-body reactions
- Reaction to metal implant
- Mesh intolerance
- Foreign-body granulomatous reactions, such as to silicone injections and paraffin oils
Uncommon
- Dermatologic disorders
- Urticaria and angioedema
- Follicular occlusion triad
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Acne conglobata
- Dissecting cellulitis of the scap (perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens)
- Vascular disorders
- Immunologic disorders
- Lupus erythematosus
- Sarcoidosis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Panniculitis
- Septal
- Erythema nodosum
- Lipodermatosclerosis
- Morphea
- Eosinophilic fasciitis
- Eosinophilia myalgia syndrome
- Lobular
- Physical panniculitis
- Colid-induced
- Traumatic
- Chemical
- Factitious
- Postirradiation
- Panniculitis associated with systemic disease
- Pancreatic panniculitis
- Lupus panniculitis
- Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Weber-Christian disease
- Cytophagic histiocytic panniculitis
- Post-steroid panniculitis
- Nodular vascultiis
- Malignant disorders
- Lyphoma
- Leukemia
- Paget disease of the breast
- Extramammary Paget disease
- Glucogonoma
- Other disorders
- Calciphylaxis
- Compartment syndrome
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