derm

Question 1

itchy palms and soles, pitting nails, dry scaly fissured skin, pustules palms and soles. Smoker. Dx?

Answer 1

Palmoplantar pustulosis

Question 2

> 80, neuro/malignant disorder, skin condition dx?

Answer 2

bullous pemphigoid
subepidermal split

Question 3

painful burns whole L arm, black eschar to right forearm - % burns??

Answer 3

9% partial thickness, 4.5% full-thickness

head and neck 9%, UL 9%, LL 18%, trunk 36%

Question 4

45F flaccid blisters mouth, front of chest, weeping, red.
Bx - intradermal split, acantholysis

Answer 4

Pemphigus vulgaris

Question 5

fragile skin at birth/shortly after, inherited dx?

Answer 5

Epidermolysis bullosa

Question 6

small, itchy blisters, elbows, knees, back, buttocks.
young, white people. HLA-DQ2/DQ8
linked to coeliac, subepidermal blisters; granular IgA deposits -?

Answer 6

dermatitis herpetiformis