50 - Acantholytic Disorders of the Skin Flashcards

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Mode of inheritance: Darier disease

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Autosomal dominant

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Darier disease also known as

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Darier-White disease

Keratosis follicularis

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Age of onset

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First to second decade

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Discrete, greasy, yellowish-brown keratotic papules on the seborrheic areas
“Intolerable stench”

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Darier disease

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Nail fragility, painful longitudinal splits, or distinctive red and white longitudinal bands terminating in V-shaped nicks are frequent and highly suggestive of

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Darier disease

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Darier disease has been reported in association with

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Neuropsychiatric disease

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Exacerbates Darier disease, possibly by suppressing levels of epidermal SERCA2
May be prescribed for bipolar disorder

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Lithium

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Gene mutation: Darier disease

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ATP2A2

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9
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ATP2A2 encodes

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Sarco- and endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ adenosine triphosphate isoform 2 (SERCA2)

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10
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Major SERCA2 isoform detected in the human epidermis

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SERCA2b

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Normal Ca2+ gradient in the epidermis

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Increasing epidermal Ca2+ gradient from the basal to superficial layers

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Ca2+ gradient in the epidermis of patients with Darier disease

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Level of Ca2+ is reduced in basal cells from both affected and unaffected skin

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Earliest ultrastructural change in Darier disease

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Breakdown of desmosomes with aggregation of keratin filaments around the cell nucleus

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Histopathology shows downgrowths of narrow cords of keratinocytes, suprabasal acantholysis with suprabasal clefts, dyskerstosis and hyperkeratosis
Corps ronds and grains

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Darier disease

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15
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Rounded eosinophilic dyskeratotic cells in the epidermis

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Corps ronds

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16
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Flattened parakeratotic cells in the cornified layer

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Grains

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17
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Pregnancy is contraindicated for _____ after stopping treatment with acitretin and for _____ after stopping isotretinoin or alitretinoin

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2 years

1 month

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18
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Acrokeratosis verruciformis is also known as

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Acral Darier disease

Acrokeratosis verruciformis of Hopf

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19
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Mode of inheritance: acrokeratosis verruciformis of Hopf

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Autosomal dominant

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20
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Histopathology shows hyperkeratosis, hypergranulosis, and acanthosis with papillomatosis
“Church spires”
Epidermis is neither dyskeratotic nor acantholytic

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Acrokeratosis verruciformis

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21
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Hailey-Hailey disease is also known as

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Familial benign chronic pemphigus

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HHD age on onset

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Third to form decade

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Weeping erosions, vesicopustules, expanding annular plaques with peripheral scaly borders, and vegetating plaques with fissures (rhagades)
Predominantly at sites of friction

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HHD

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24
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Gene mutation: Hailey-Hailey disease

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ATP2C1

25
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Localized, whitish papules that tend to cluster on the genitalia and the inguinal folds

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Papular acantholytic dyskeratosis

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Gene mutation: papular acantholytic dyskeratosis

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ATP2C1

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ATP2C1 encodes

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Human secretory-pathway Ca2+/Mn2+ ATPase isoform 1 (SPCA1)

28
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The structure of SPCA is similar to that of SERCA, but SPCA only transports _____ into the Golgi lumen

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A single Ca2+ or Mn2+ ion

29
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SPCA1 is localized to the

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Basal layer of the normal epidermis

30
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Effect of ATP2C1 mutation on Ca2+ stores

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Total Ca2+ in the epidermal granular layer is reduced, and the normal epidermal Ca2+ gradient is attenuated in both affected and unaffected skin

31
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Although ATP2C1 mRNA is expressed ubiquitously, HHD is limited to the skin because

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Keratinocytes may be more sensitive to levels of SPCA1 than other cells, because unlike most other cells, the Golgi in keratinocytes lack SERCA to compensate for deficient SPCA1

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Histopathology shows widespread partial loss of cohesion between suprabasal keratinocytes with an appearance likeness to a dilapidated brick wall

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HHD

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HHD vs DD: acantholysis is more widespread and dyskeratosis less prominent

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HHD

34
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Can be influenced by pregnancies

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HHD

35
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Grover disease is also known as

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Transient acantholytic dermatosis

Persistent acantholytic dermatosis

36
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Age of onset

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Fifth decade

37
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Itchy rash on sun-damaged skin of the trunk
Scattered pinkish or red-brown papules with variable hyperkeratosis, papulovesicles (rarely bullae), or less often eczematous plaques
Most common in fair skinned men older than 40 years old

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Grover disease

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Mode of inheritance: Grover disease

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Nonfamilial

Pathogenesis remains unknown

39
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Asymptotic, skin-colored, flat-topped warty papules on the dorsum of the hands and feet

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Acrokeratosis verruciformis

40
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Hailey-Hailey disease is also known as

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Familial benign chronic pemphigus

41
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HHD age on onset

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Third to form decade

42
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Weeping erosions, vesicopustules, expanding annular plaques with peripheral scaly borders, and vegetating plaques with fissures (rhagades)
Predominantly at sites of friction

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HHD

43
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Gene mutation: Hailey-Hailey disease

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ATP2C1

44
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Localized, whitish papules that tend to cluster on the genitalia and the inguinal folds

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Papular acantholytic dyskeratosis

45
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Gene mutation: papular acantholytic dyskeratosis

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ATP2C1

46
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ATP2C1 encodes

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Human secretory-pathway Ca2+/Mn2+ ATPase isoform 1 (SPCA1)

47
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The structure of SPCA is similar to that of SERCA, but SPCA only transports _____ into the Golgi lumen

A

A single Ca2+ or Mn2+ ion

48
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SPCA1 is localized to the

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Basal layer of the normal epidermis

49
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Effect of ATP2C1 mutation on Ca2+ stores

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Total Ca2+ in the epidermal granular layer is reduced, and the normal epidermal Ca2+ gradient is attenuated in both affected and unaffected skin

50
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Although ATP2C1 mRNA is expressed ubiquitously, HHD is limited to the skin because

A

Keratinocytes may be more sensitive to levels of SPCA1 than other cells, because unlike most other cells, the Golgi in keratinocytes lack SERCA to compensate for deficient SPCA1

51
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Histopathology shows widespread partial loss of cohesion between suprabasal keratinocytes with an appearance likeness to a dilapidated brick wall

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HHD

52
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HHD vs DD: acantholysis is more widespread and dyskeratosis less prominent

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HHD

53
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Can be influenced by pregnancies

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HHD

54
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Grover disease is also known as

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Transient acantholytic dermatosis

Persistent acantholytic dermatosis

55
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Age of onset

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Fifth decade

56
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Itchy rash on sun-damaged skin of the trunk
Scattered pinkish or red-brown papules with variable hyperkeratosis, papulovesicles (rarely bullae), or less often eczematous plaques
Most common in fair skinned men older than 40 years old

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Grover disease

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Mode of inheritance: Grover disease

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Nonfamilial

Pathogenesis remains unknown

58
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Gene mutation: Acrokeratosis verruciformis

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ATP2A2