8/12/21: GPA Webinar 13 Flashcards
Clinical Features of Paget’s Disease
- Sabre sign - bowing of Tibia
- joint pain, stiffness, bone pain, headache and deafness
- bone pain- worse at night
Pretibial Myxoedema - associated with?
Graves Disease
Clinical Features of Lipodermatosclerosis
Skin induration, increased pigmentation, swelling, redness, inverted champagne bottle appearance
Triad for erythromelalgia
burning pain, redness, warmth of extremities
Clinical Features of Pyoderma Gangrenosum
Non-healing painful ulcers
purplish undermined edges
on lower limbs usually
Management of Pyoderma Gangrenosum
- immunosuppression - prednisolone
- NOT for debridement
How is molluscum contagiosum transmitted?
Transmitted by direct skin contact but fomites (bath towels or sponges) or swimming pools can also be a source of infection. Can also be sexually transmitted and is associated with genital molluscum lesions.
how to treat molluscum contagiousum?
- Picking out the soft white core - could lead to autoinoculation
- Cryotherapy - can leave white marks → useful in patient with only a few small lesions
- Gentle Curettage - can scar → → useful in patient with only a few small lesions
- children may need local anaesthetic → lidocaine + prilocaine
- Laser Ablation - can scar
- as per eTG → an occlusive tape can be left on lesions for 24 hours and then pulled off rapidly!!
Management of keratosis pilaris?
- reassurance
- urea 10% topically if needed
Treatment for paronychia?
- consider ring block → 1-2ml lidocaine (no adrenaline) into proxmial crease of finger
- Incise the abscess with a 21G needle → immediate relief
- No need for ABx unless surrounding cellulitis
- dicloxacillin or flucloxacillin 500mg PO Q6H for 5/7
- cefalexin 1g BD for 5/7
Management of Herptic Gingiostomatitis?
- hydration
- topical anaesthetic - benzydamine 1% gel, topically to lesions, 2-3 hourly as necessary
- can up to lidocaine 2% viscous solution
- DO NOT NEED antiviral treatment usually
- only in severe or immunocompromised - use antivirals
If suspecting dermatitis herpetiform, investigations?
skin biopsy (punch)
Management of dermatitis herptiform?
gluten free diet as it is always related to gluten sensitive enteropathy.
dapasone can give symptomatic relief
Treatment for Digital Myxoid Pseudocyst?
- press firmly
- drain cyst
- cryotherapy
- steroid injection
- sclerosant injection
- surgical removal