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Derm Assessment Flashcards

1
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What is a flat primary lesion <1 cm

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Macule

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2
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What is a flat primary lesion >1 cm

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Patch

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3
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Small, solid skin elevation <1cm

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Papule

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4
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Solid skin elevation >1cm

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Plaque

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5
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Mass 1-2cm in diameter

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Nodule

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6
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Mass greater than 2cm

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Tumor

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7
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Fluid filled lesion <1cm

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Vesicle

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8
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Fluid filled lesion >1cm

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Bulla

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9
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Raised spot <1cm containing puss

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Pustule

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10
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Semisolid mass, bigger than a pustule

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Cyst

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11
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Raised skin lesion with interstitial fluid

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Wheal

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12
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Blackhead or whitehead

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Comedo

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13
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Abscess around the hair follicle

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Furuncle

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14
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Group of furuncles

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Carbuncle

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15
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Scabies lesions

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Burrow

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16
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Superficial capillary dilation spider veins

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Telangiectasia

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17
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Flake or sheet arising from the stratum corneum

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Scale

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18
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Scratches on the skin

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Excoriations

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19
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Thickened skin d/t trauma/itching, leading to deepened skin lines

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Lichenification

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20
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Moist circumscribed depressed lesion resulting from the loss of portion or all of viable epidermal or mucosal epithelium

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Erosion

21
Q

Deeper lesion involving the epidermis and at least upper dermis, leading to scarring

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Ulceration

22
Q

Thin and wrinkled skin

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Atrophy

23
Q

secondary lesion: Small, pupuric (purplish) lesions up to 2mm across

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Petechiae

24
Q

discoloration of the skin d/t hemorrhage from small vessels, doesn’t blanch with pressure, larger than petechiae

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Purpura

25
Q

Round with central clearing

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Annular shaped

26
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Partial ring

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Arcuate shaped

27
Q

Almost a full ring

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Circinate shape

28
Q

Lesions run together, a distribution

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Confluent

29
Q

Target shape

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Iris shape

30
Q

Linear arrangement along a dermatome route

A

Zosteriform

31
Q

A Lace-like network

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Reticulated

32
Q

Snakeline track

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Serpiginous shape

33
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Dilated blood vessels

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Telangiectatic shape

34
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A line/streak

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Linear shape lesion

35
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Horny thickening

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Keratotic shape

36
Q

What’s the difference between primary and secondary lesion

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Primary is from a disease process. Secondary evolves related to a primary lesion or from the patient’s actions

37
Q

Describe the epidermis

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Outermost layer of skin made of a basal layer that proliferates cells which mature and move up into keratocytes

38
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What is the stratum corneum?

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Outermost later of the epidermis

39
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Describe the dermis

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The layer below the epidermis, with blood vessels, hair follicles, and erector pili muscle

40
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Describe the subcutaneous layer

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Fatty connective tissue, thermoregulator, protects from pressure ulcers and bony joints

41
Q

What is an oil-secretion gland in the dermis?

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Sebaceous gland, lubricates hair follicles

42
Q

What is the whitish nail matrix and what does it do?

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Lunula, proliferates epithelial cells.

43
Q

What is the thickened portion of bed responsible for nail growth?

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Nail matrix

44
Q

What is the hard part of the nail?

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Nail plate

45
Q

Areas of the body that do not have hair?

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Palms, soles, lips, eyelids, labia minora, glans penis

46
Q

Term for excessive growth of hair?

A

Hypertrichosis

47
Q

Acronym for what factors to pay attention to in a derm exam?

A

Asymmetry, border irregulatiry, color variation, diameter greater than 6mm, evolving

48
Q

Fancy term for itching?

A

Pruritis

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