# What is this skin ... condition? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 1, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868 "2013-11-01T20:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868/1 "2013-11-01T20:04:08Z")
I have seen two different people in the past year with what I will call a rather disfiguring skin condition. Their faces and arms were covered with hundreds of bumps from about the size of pencil erasers to maybe about 3 times that size. The bumps are the same color as the rest of their skin. Does anyone here know the name of this condition? ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868/2 "2013-11-01T20:59:41Z")
IANAMD, but could be neurofibromatosis. ---
**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868/3 "2013-11-01T21:51:59Z")
This picture of neurofibromas is only somewhat similar to what I saw. [http://www.understandingnf1.org/images/glossary/gl\_popup\_img\_neurofibroma.jpg](http://www.understandingnf1.org/images/glossary/gl_popup_img_neurofibroma.jpg) So it could be neurofibromatosis, but it still might be something else. ---
**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868/4 "2013-11-01T21:55:56Z")
OK. This is more like what I saw. [http://images.ask.com/fr?q=pictures+of+neurofibromas&desturi=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uv.es%2F~vicalegr%2Fsemin%2Fsemin5%2Fsem5neurof.htm&initialURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com&fm=i&ac=&fsel=2&ftURI=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.ask.com%2Ffr%3Fq%3Dpictures%2Bof%2Bneurofibromas%26desturi%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.uv.es%252F%257Evicalegr%252Fsemin%252Fsemin5%252Fsem5neurof.htm%26imagesrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.uv.es%252F%257Evicalegr%252Fsemin%252Fsemin5%252Fsem5ne3.jpg%26thumbsrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmedia4.picsearch.com%252Fis%253FlaCPHslL3aL1QexdDDjBX0KPLLuoqyvveHY2\_BKQY9E%26thumbuselocalisedstatic%3Dfalse%26thumbwidth%3D128%26thumbheight%3D100%26fn%3Dsem5ne3.jpg%26imagewidth%3D361%26imageheight%3D250%26fs%3D49%26f%3D2%26fm%3Di%26fsel%3D2%26ftbURI%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com](http://images.ask.com/fr?q=pictures+of+neurofibromas&desturi=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uv.es%2F%7Evicalegr%2Fsemin%2Fsemin5%2Fsem5neurof.htm&initialURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com&fm=i&ac=&fsel=2&ftURI=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.ask.com%2Ffr%3Fq%3Dpictures%2Bof%2Bneurofibromas%26desturi%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.uv.es%252F%257Evicalegr%252Fsemin%252Fsemin5%252Fsem5neurof.htm%26imagesrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.uv.es%252F%257Evicalegr%252Fsemin%252Fsemin5%252Fsem5ne3.jpg%26thumbsrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmedia4.picsearch.com%252Fis%253FlaCPHslL3aL1QexdDDjBX0KPLLuoqyvveHY2_BKQY9E%26thumbuselocalisedstatic%3Dfalse%26thumbwidth%3D128%26thumbheight%3D100%26fn%3Dsem5ne3.jpg%26imagewidth%3D361%26imageheight%3D250%26fs%3D49%26f%3D2%26fm%3Di%26fsel%3D2%26ftbURI%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com) ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868/5 "2013-11-01T23:51:57Z")
Your link comes out in Spanish on my iPhone. But I think it also refers to neurofibromatosis. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868/6 "2013-11-02T02:55:37Z")
> [@barbitu8](#): > > Your link comes out in Spanish on my iPhone. But I think it also refers to neurofibromatosis. yep, the name of the link is "neurof " and has the comment. “La imagen clínica es sugestiva de un neurofibroma” ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-skin-condition/672868/7 "2013-11-06T17:35:12Z")
I was thinking chloracne (disfiguring skin condition resulting from dioxin poisoning) but that’s extremely rare, and doesn’t usually affect the limbs.