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Symptom: Sores



Introduction: Sores

Further information about Sores is below, or review more specific information about these types of Sores: pus, blisters, cold sores, skin sores, bed sores, skin ulcers, spots, Weals or other types.

Sores: Sores affecting the skin. See free access online books about Sores below. See detailed information below for a list of 238 causes of Sores, including diseases and drug side effect causes.

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Causes of Sores:

The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Sores. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

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Causes of Types of Sores:

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Causes of General Symptom Types

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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Sores

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Diagnostic Guides for Sores

Medical Books Excerpts Read excerpts from published book sections related to Sores from the following published medical books for more detailed information about Sores. Free access (no registration): read all online diagnostic book sections about Sores

Medical Books Excerpts
  • "In a Page: Signs and Symptoms"
  • "In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms"
  • "Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care"
  • "Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis"
  • "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics"

Copyright notice for book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Stories from Users for Sores

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Organs affected by Sores:

The list of organs typically affected by Sores may include, but is not limited to:

Detailed list of causes of Sores

The list below shows some of the causes of Sores mentioned in various sources:

See full list of 238 causes of Sores

How Common are these Causes of Sores?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Sores. Of the 238 causes of Sores that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

  • 8 causes are "very common" diseases
  • 11 causes are "common" diseases
  • 7 causes are "uncommon" diseases
  • 3 causes are "rare" diseases
  • 23 causes are "very rare" diseases
  • 197 causes have no prevalence information.

See the analysis of the prevalence of 238 causes of Sores

Conditions listing symptoms: Sores:

The following list of conditions have 'Sores' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

A

  • Acne Vulgaris ... skin pustules
  • Acrodermatitis Enteropathica ... mucous membrane blisters
  • Actinic cheilitis ... lip ulcers
  • Actinomycetales infection ... organ abscesses, skin abscess
  • Actinomycosis ... abscess formation
  • African Sleeping sickness ... red sore
  • Anthrax ... skin ulcer
  • Aquagenous Urticaria ... skin blisters
  • Arthralgia - purpura - weakness syndrome ... skin ulcer
  • Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis ... urticaria
  • Autoimmune Vasculitis ... Urticaria

    B

  • Bahemuka Brown syndrome ... urticaria
  • Bedsores ... skin ulcers
  • Behcet's Disease ... skin pustules
  • Bejel ... skin ulcers
  • Benign mucosal pemphigoid ... itchy blisters, blisters on the vulva
  • Blastomycosis ... abscess over bone lesion
  • Blue rubber bleb nevus ... blister-like hemangiomas
  • Boil ... pus head appears on the boil, burst boil, boil on skin
  • Bubonic plague ... blister at flea bite site
  • Bullous dystrophy, macular type ... blisters
  • Bullous Pemphigoid ... blisters
  • Burns ... open wounds, skin blistering
  • Buruli ulcer ... skin ulcer

    C

  • Callosities, hereditary painful ... blisters
  • Cancer ... Poorly healing skin sore, abscess
  • Candidiasis ... small blisters
  • Canker sores ... lip ulcers
  • Carbuncle ... boils, group of boils, skin abscess
  • Cellulitis ... scabs, blisters
  • Cercarial dermatitis ... small blisters
  • Cheilitis glandularis ... lip ulcers
  • Chickenpox ... itchy blisters, scabbing of blisters, scabbing of blisters, blister-like rash
  • Chronic Granulomatous Disease ... boils
  • Cold sores ... lip ulcers
  • Complement component deficiency ... skin ulcers
  • Complement receptor deficiency ... skin ulcers
  • Congenital herpes simplex ... blisters
  • Congenital syphilis ... skin sores
  • Connective tissue disorders ... blistered skin
  • Contact dermatitis ... skin blisters
  • Creeping disease ... blistering
  • Crohn's disease ... abscess
  • Cutaneous Anthrax ... skin ulcer
  • Cutaneous diphtheria ... skin ulcer
  • Cutaneous mastocytosis ... Blister formation, blistering of skin lesions
  • Cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis ... blisters
  • Cutaneous vascularitis ... skin pustules, skin ulcers
  • Cutis Marmorata Telangiectatica Congenita ... skin ulcers

    D

  • Darier Disease ... crusted skin
  • Dental caries ... Abscess
  • Dental conditions ... Abscess
  • Dermatitis ... blisters
  • Dermatitis herpetiformis ... blistering skin rash
  • Diabetes ... skin boils, abscess, skin ulcers
  • Diabetes mellitus, transient neonatal ... abscess
  • Dialyzer hypersensitivity syndrome ... urticaria
  • Dipylidium ... Urticaria
  • Dipylidium caninum infection ... urticaria
  • Dracunculiasis ... chronic skin ulcers
  • Duhring disease ... blisters
  • Duhring-Brocq disease ... small blisters
  • Dyskeratosis congenita of Zinsser-Cole-Engman ... blisters

    E

  • East African Trypanosomiasis ... red sore
  • Ectodermal dysplasia/ skin fragility syndrome ... blistered skin
  • Eczema ... crusting, crusty rash on cheek, blistered patches, crusty leg blisters, Urticaria, crusty arm blisters, blisters, weeping spots
  • Electrical burns ... Blistering
  • Electrocution ... Blistering
  • Epidermolysa bullosa simplex and limb girdle muscular dystrophy ... blistered skin
  • Epidermolysis bullosa ... painful blisters, skin blistering, skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita ... blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica, Bart type ... blistered skin
  • Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica, dominant type ... blistered skin
  • Epidermolysis bullosa intraepidermic ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa inversa dystrophica ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex with mottled pigmentation ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Cockayne-Touraine type ... blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Koebner type ... blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Ogna type ... blisters on palms, blisters on soles
  • Epidermolysis bullosa with pyloric atresia ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa, dermolytic ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa, generalized atrophic benign ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa, junctional ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa, junctional, Herlitz-Pearson ... skin blisters
  • Epidermolysis bullosa, junctional, with pyloric atrophy ... blistering skin, mucous membrane blisters
  • Epidermolytic Hyperkeratosis ... skin blisters
  • Erysipelas ... pus-filled blisters
  • Erythema multiforme ... blisters
  • Erythrokeratodermia ataxia ... urticaria
  • Exfoliative dermatitis ... crusted skin

    F

  • Febrile Ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann disease ... skin blisters
  • Fingerprints absence - syndactyly - milia ... blisters on palms
  • Flavimonas oryzihabitans ... abscesses
  • Fluke infections ... Urticaria
  • Flynn-Aird syndrome ... chronic skin ulcers
  • Fournier Gangrene ... pus
  • Frostbite ... local blisters
  • Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor ... oozing sores, crusty sores, crusty sores, spreading sores, blisters

    G

  • Genital herpes ... episodic recurrent outbreaks of sores interspersed with remission periods, sores, blisters
  • Gestational pemphigoid ... blisters
  • Glanders ... skin ulcer, pus-forming skin infections, skin abscess
  • Glucagonoma syndrome ... oozing sores, crusty sores, crusty sores, spreading sores, blisters
  • Granuloma inguinale ... skin ulcers
  • Grover's disease ... crusty small skin bumps

    H

  • Hailey-Hailey disease ... crusted skin
  • Hand-Foot-Mouth Syndrome ... painful blisters
  • Helminth infections ... Urticaria
  • HIV/AIDS ... abscess
  • Homozygous protein C deficiency ... blistered skin
  • Hydroa vacciniforme ... crusted skin lesions, blisters
  • Hyper-IgE Syndrome ... skin abscesses
  • Hyperimidodipeptiduria ... chronic skin ulceration
  • Hyperimmunoglobulinemia E ... skin abscesses
  • Hypomelanosis of Ito ... blistered skin

    I

  • Ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens ... blistered skin
  • Immune deficiency conditions ... abscess
  • Impetigo ... dried scabs, blistery rash that spreads, blisters
  • Incontinentia Pigmenti ... blistered skin, spiral lines of small fluid-filled blisters
  • Invasive group A Streptococcal disease ... Blisters

    J

  • Jones-Hersh-Yusk syndrome ... skin blistering

    K

  • Kaposi's Sarcoma ... brown spots, red-purple spots in mouth, dark spots, red-purple spots on legs, red-purple spots on arms, reddish-purple spots, ulcerating spots, ulcerating spots, ulcerating spots
  • Kraemer syndrome ... abscess in scleral vessels

    L

  • Latex allergies ... Blistering, Urticaria
  • Leishmaniasis ... raised edge sores, scabs, skin sores
  • Leukemia ... skin sores
  • Lipoid proteinosis of Urbach and Wiethe ... skin ulcers
  • Listeriosis - granulomatous infantiseptica ... skin abscess
  • Lupus ... chronic leg ulcers
  • Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis ... skin ulcers

    M

  • Majeed syndrome ... skin pustules
  • Melioidosis ... abscesses, skin pustules, skin abscesses, lymph node abscesses, organ abscesses, bone abscesses
  • Mental retardation - arachnodactyly - hypotonia - telangiectasia ... urticaria
  • Morgellons Disease ... skin sores
  • Mouth ulcers ... lip ulcers
  • Moynahan syndrome III ... skin blistering
  • Mycosis fungoides ... skin ulcers

    N

  • Nakajo syndrome ... urticaria
  • Nakajo-Nishimura syndrome ... urticaria
  • Necrotizing fasciitis ... blisters
  • Neonatal herpes, type 1 virus ... blisters
  • Neonatal herpes, type 2 virus ... blisters
  • Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome ... urticaria
  • Nocardiosis ... skin abscesses, organ abscesses

    O

  • Oculocutaneous tyrosinemia ... blistered lesions
  • Orf ... blisters

    P

  • Pachyonychia congenita recessive ... blistered skin
  • Paget's Disease ... crusted lesions
  • Paragonimiases - lung infection ... urticaria
  • Paragonimiasis ... urticaria
  • Peanut allergies ... Urticaria
  • Pediculosis ... body sores
  • Pellagra-like syndrome ... urticaria
  • Pemphigus ... blisters, mucous membrane blisters, nasal blisters, skin ulcers, skin blisters
  • Pemphigus and fogo selvagem ... chest blisters, blisters
  • Pemphigus Foliaceus ... Blisters, crusty blisters
  • Pemphigus Vulgaris ... Blisters, crusting skin lesions, skin blisters
  • Pemphigus vulgaris, familial ... skin blisters
  • Penicillin allergy ... Urticaria
  • Periorbital Cellulitis ... blister formation over red area
  • Phenylketonuria ... blistered skin
  • Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta ... skin blisters
  • Plague ... blister at flea bite site
  • Poikiloderma of Kindler ... blisters following mild trauma
  • Poikiloderma of Rothmund-Thomson ... blistered skin
  • Pollen allergy ... Urticaria
  • Porphyria ... blisters, skin blisters
  • Protoporphyria ... blistered skin
  • Psoriasis ... small red patches, skin blisters

    R

  • Rat-bite fever ... skin ulcers
  • Rhabditida Infections ... chronic skin ulcers
  • Rheumatoid vasculitis ... skin ulcers
  • Rhodococcus equi ... skin abscess
  • Ritter syndrome ... crusted lesions around ears, crusted lesions around nose, skin blisters, crusted skin
  • Roundworm ... Urticaria

    S

  • SCID ... cold sores
  • Secernentea Infections ... chronic skin ulcers
  • Shingles ... semicircular one-sided skin blister rash, scabs, small yellow skin blisters, skin blisters
  • Short limbs subluxed knees cleft palate ... urticaria
  • Sickle Cell Anemia ... skin ulcers
  • Skin allergies ... Urticaria
  • Skin Cancer ... skin ulcer
  • Skin conditions ... Urticaria
  • Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous ... skin blisters
  • Skin Diseases, Viral ... skin pustules, skin sores, skin blisters
  • Skin rash ... Urticaria
  • Sneddon-Wilkinson disease ... crusted lesions
  • Sparse hair - short stature - skin anomalies ... urticaria
  • Spinal shock ... decubital ulcers
  • Spirurida Infections ... skin ulcer, skin blisters
  • Sporotrichosis ... open sores (ulcerations), boil-like lesions
  • Squamous Cell Skin Cancer ... crusty skin lesion
  • Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ... skin blisters
  • Sunburn ... Blisters
  • Syphilis ... small brown sores

    T

  • Taeniasis ... Urticaria
  • The clap ... abscesses
  • Tinea ... scabs, blisters
  • Toxic epidermal necrolysis ... mucous membrane blisters
  • Transient bullous dermolysis of the newborn ... blistered skin
  • Trichinosis ... urticarial rash
  • Type 2 diabetes ... skin ulcers

    U

  • Ulcerative colitis ... abscess

    V

  • Variegate porphyria ... skin blisters
  • Vasculitis hypersensitivity ... Urticaria
  • Vibrio Infections ... blistering skin lesions
  • Vibrio vulnificus ... blistering skin lesions

    W

  • Wegener's granulomatosis ... skin ulcers, skin blisters
  • Wells syndrome ... Urticaria, skin blistering
  • Werner syndrome ... skin ulcers
  • West African Trypanosomiasis ... red sore

    Y

  • Yaws ... crusted lesion, skin ulcers

    Conditions listing complications: Sores:

    The following list of conditions have 'Sores' or similar listed as a complication in our database. The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear, and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

    B

  • Bacteremia ... abscesses

    C

  • Cancer ... abscess
  • Chancroid ... abscess
  • Crohn's disease ... abscess

    D

  • Diabetes ... abscess
  • Dracunculiasis ... skin ulcers

    E

  • Epiglotitis ... skin abscess

    G

  • Gnathostoma Infection ... abscess

    H

  • HIV/AIDS ... abscess

    I

  • Immune deficiency conditions ... abscess

    L

  • Leprosy ... skin ulcers
  • Loiasis ... abscess

    M

  • Melioidosis ... skin ulcers

    O

  • Osteomyelitis ... abscess

    S

  • Salpingitis ... abscesses
  • Sebaceous cyst ... abscess
  • Sepsis ... abscesses
  • Septicemia ... abscesses
  • Sialadenitis ... abscess
  • Spinal cord injury ... bed sores
  • Staphylococcal infection ... abscesses, boils

    U

  • Ulcerative colitis ... abscess

    V

  • Varicose veins ... skin ulcers
  • Vibrio vulnificus ... blistering skin lesions

    X

  • Xanthogranulomatous sialadenitis ... abscess

    Y

  • Yaws ... skin ulcers

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  • Causes of Sores Based on Risk Factors

    This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Sores based on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient:

  • Travel - has the patient travelled recently?
  • Diabetes - history of diabetes or family history of diabetes?
  • Sexual activity - history of sexual behavior?

    Doctors and specialists: Who should I consult about Sores?

    Depending on the seriousness of the onset of Sores, you may want to consult one of the following medical professionals.
    Important:In extreme cases, always seek advice from emergency services :

    Classifications of Sores:

    Subtypes of Sores:

    Pus (27 causes), Blisters (144 causes), Cold sores (1 cause), Skin sores (7 causes), Bed sores, Skin ulcers (66 causes), Spots (2 causes), Weals (31 causes), Scaly eruptions, Skin blistering (5 causes), Pustular rash, Scabs (7 causes), Scabbing skin, Abscess (17 causes)

    Medical Conditions associated with Sores:

    Skin symptoms (1818 causes), Skin problems (1667 causes)

    Symptoms related to Sores:

    Skin rash (379 causes), Skin ulcers (66 causes), Skin blisters (144 causes), Skin symptoms (1818 causes)

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