Manual of the Medical Department (NAVMED P-117): Chapter 15: Medical Examinations: Physical Standards

15-52 Skin and Cellular Tissues

Department of the Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

(a) Acne. Severe, when the face is markedly disfigured, w when extensive involvement of the neck, shoulders, chest, or back would be aggravated by or interfere with the wearing of military equipment.

(b) Atopic dermatitis. With active or residual lesions in characteristic areas (face and neck, antecubital and popliteal fossae, occasionally wrists and hands), or documented history thereof.

(c) Cysts

(1) Cysts, other than pilonidal, of such a size or location as to interfere with the normal wearing of military equipment.

(2) Cysts, pilonidal, if evidenced by the presence of a tumor, mass, w a discharging sinus.

(d) Dermatitis factitia.

(e) Dermatitis herpetiformis.

(f) Eczema. Any type which is chronic and resistant to treatment.

(g) Elephantiasis or chronic lymphedema.

(h) Epidermolysis bullose; pemphigus.

(i) Fungus infection, systemic or superficial types: If extensive and not amenable to treatment.

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(j) Furunculosis. Extensive, recurrent, w chronic.

(k) Hyperhidrosis of hands or feet, chronic or severe.

(l) Ichthyosis, severe.

(m) Leprosy, any type.

(n) Leukemia cutis mycosis fungoides; Hodgkin's' disease

(o) Lichen planus.

(p) Lupus erythematosus (acute, subacute, w chronic) or any other dermatosis aggravated by sunlight.

(q) Neurofibromatosis (Von Recklinghausen's disease).

(r) Nevi or vascular tumors, if extensive, unsightly, or exposed to constant irritation

(s) Psoriasis or a verified history thereof.

(t) Radiodermatitis.

(u) Scars or keloids which are so extensive, deep, or adherent that they may interfere with the wearing of military equipment, or that show a tendency to ulcerate.

(v) Scleroderma, diffuse type.

(w) Tuberculosis.

(x) Urticaria, chronic.

(y) Warts, planter, which have materially interfered with the following of a useful vocation in civilian life.

(z) Xanthoma, if disabling w accompanied by hypercholesterolemia or hyperlipemia.

(aa) Any other chronic skin disorder of a degree or nature which requires frequent outpatient treatment or hospitalization, or interferes with the satisfactory performance of duty.

(bb) Tattoos that will significantly limit effective performance of military service.