Cutaneous signs of systemic disease Flashcards
What are cutaenous manifestations of Diabetes?
- Flexural candidiasis
- Necrobiosis lipodica
- Acanthosis nicrigans
- Granuloma annulare
- Folliculitis
What is the following?
Necrobiosis lipodica - area of spreading erythema over the shin which becomes yellowish and atrophic in the centra and may ulcerate
What would you ask about if you saw someone with the following skin lesion?
Diabetes - specifically management
What is the following?
Granuloma annulare - chronic, non-infectious inflammatory condion approx. 1cm ring-shaped lesion, often on the back of hands
What would you ask about if you saw somoene with the following?
Diabetes
What is the following?
Acanthosis nigricans
What would you ask about if you saw the following?
Diabetes
What is the following?
Dermatitis herpatiformis - very itchy/burning blisters on elbows, scalp, shoulders and ankles
What would you want to investigate for if you saw the following?
Coeliac disease - Anti-endomysial antibody, Anti-TTG, Endoscopy, Biopsy
What is the following?
Erythema nodosum - tender ill-defined subcutaneous nodules e.g. on shins
What might cause the following (lesions are painful/tender)?
- Strep infection
- Sarcoidosis
- TB
- Drugs
- IBD
- Chlamydia infection
Who does the following most commonly occur in?
Young adults, esp. females
What can the following be associated with symptomatically?
- Arthralgia
- Malaise
- Fever
What is the following?
Pyoderma gangrenosum - rapidly growing, very painful recurring nodulo-pustular ulcers, with tender red/blue overhanging necrotic edges. It is often preceded by tender pustules
What can cause the following?
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Myeloma, monoclonal gammopathy, leukaemia, lymphoma
- Liver disease (e.g. primary biliary cirrhosis)
- Idiopathic (>20% in some series).
What associated symptoms may be present with the following?
- Pyrexia
- Malaise
What would you find if you biopsied the following lesion?
Intense neutrophilic infiltrate and occasional vasculitis
What are cutaneous manifestions of IBD?
- Erythema nodosum
- Pyoderma gangrenosum
What can cause the following?
- Diabetes - insulin resistance - early life
- Malignancy - esp. GI tumours - later life
What is the following?
Chronic discoid lupus erythematosus - Inflamed sclay plaques + Scarring + atrophy with telangiectasia often localised to head and neck. Hypopigmentation is common
What are the cutaneous manifestations of SLE?
- Chronic discoid lupus
- Chillblain
- Subacute cutaneous LE
- Acute SLE
- Vasculitis
- Alopecia
- Oral ulcers
- Palmar erythema
- Periungal erythema
- Raynaud’s phenomenon
What can trigger the following?
UV exposure
What is the following?
Malar rash
What might cause the following?
- SLE
- Infective endocarditis
- Mitral stenosis