An intensely pruritic, weeping, eczematous rash on the ear, often caused by nickel in earrings or chemicals in hair products.
Inflammation of the ear cartilage, sparing the earlobe, causing the ear to become swollen, red, tender, and warm.
Itchy and painful red or purplish swellings on the helix after exposure to cold.
Presents as a single, exquisitely tender, crusted papule on the pressure-bearing helix of the ear.
An eczematous rash with erythema, scale, and pruritus caused by an irritant or allergen.
Characterized by atrophic, scaly, erythematous plaques with follicular plugging, often located in the conchal bowl.
Atopic or seborrheic dermatitis presenting with erythema, scaling, and fissuring, especially in the retroauricular crease (behind the ear).
A painful, firm fold of flesh with a central fissure, typically in the groove behind the ear, caused by pressure from eyeglass frames.
A photodermatosis in boys, presenting as an itchy, papulovesicular eruption on the helices of the ears in the spring.
A vasculitis associated with contaminated cocaine, causing purpuric, retiform, and necrotic plaques, characteristically on the ears.
A form of cutaneous tuberculosis that can cause progressive, destructive, reddish-brown "apple-jelly" nodules on the ear.
Inflammation of the external ear canal ("swimmer's ear"), causing pain, discharge, and erythema of the canal skin.
Presents as well-demarcated, erythematous plaques with a silvery scale on the external ear and in the ear canal.
An autoimmune disease causing recurrent episodes of severe, painful, bilateral inflammation of the ear cartilage, characteristically sparing the earlobes.
A common rash causing greasy, yellowish scale and erythema in the conchal bowl and behind the ears.
