DERM PATH Flashcards
CAUSES OF DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALIES.. DUE TO IN UTERO INFECTION
BVDV BLUETONGUE AKABANE PANLEUKOPENIA CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER
STERILE GRANULOMATOUS DERMATITIS
CHRONIC PROCESS- NAG
PYODERMA
MEANS PUS IN THE SKIN
ET: OFTEN STAPHYLOCOCCUS
COMMON IN DOGS
SUPERFICIAL = EPIDERMIS AND HAIR FOLLICLES INFECTED (FOLLICULITIS)
DEEP= DEEP DERMIS- BACTERIAL FURUNCULOSIS- RUPTURED HAIR FOLLICLE, NEUTROPHILIC RESPONSE
WHAT IS A PLAQUE
COALESCED PAPULES
FIRST DEGREE THERMAL BURN
EPIDERMIS
COMPLETE HEALING
REDDENED DARKENED, NECROTIC EPIDERMIS
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF SCALE
DISORDERS OF KERATINIZATION
CHRONIC DERMATITIS
URTICARIA
HIVES- SKIN BUMPS DUE TO HYPERSENSITIVITY
= MAST CELL DEGRANULATION
DDX FOR CRUSTY LAMBS
PHOTOSENSITIZATION
DERMATOPHILUS
VIRAL INFECTION- ORF* BLUETONGUE VESICULAR DISEASES
DERMATOPHILOSIS
ET: DERMATOPHILUS CONGOLENSIS
LESIONS ON BACK OR EXTREMITIES
CS: PUSTULES, EXUDATE, MATTING OF HAIR/WOOL, ALOPECIA
PREDISPOSING FACTORS- WET WEATHER, HUMID CLIMATES
CYTOLOGY WILL LOOK LIKE TRAINTRACKS
INTERFACE
AUTOIMMUNE
- PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS
- DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
LEUKOCYTES AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN DERMIS AND EPIDERMIS
THIRD DEGREE THERMAL BURN
FULL THICKNESS EPIDERMIS +/- SUBCUTIS
SLOUGHING OF NECROTIC TISSUE FOLLOWED BY GRANULATION
SCAR
LIFE THREATENING
EOSINOPHILIC DERMATITIS
ALLERGIES
HYPERSENSITIVITY
ATOPIC DERMATITIS
MOST COMMON TYPE 1 HYPERSENSITIVITY DIAGNOSED WITH INTRADERMAL SKIN TESTING CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH OTITIS EXTERNA ENVIRONMENTAL AND INHALED ALLERGENS
HISTIOCYTOMA
DOGS
HEAD, EARS, NECK, LEGS
ROUND CELLS
BENIGN
PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE TYPE 2 HYPERSENSITIVITY HORSES, DOGS, CATS, GOATS DISTRIBUTION- FACE, EARS, FEET, NAIL BEDS CS: VESICLES, PUSTULES, CRUSTS, ULCERS
DEMODICOSIS
ET: DEMODEX MITE USUALLY YOUNG DOGS ON FACE AND LEGS SELF LIMITING EOSINOPHILIC RXN BECAUSE PARASITES CS: ALOPECIA, ERYTHEMA, DOES NOT CAUSE PRURITIS
EQUINE SARCOID
COMMON IN YOUNG ADULT HORSES
ET: BOVINE PAPILLOMA VIRUS
LATE DERMATITIS SIGNS
SCALING, CHANGE IN OILINESS, ULCERATION, ALOPECIA, LICHENIFICATION, PIGMENT CHANGE, FIBROSIS AND SCARRING
ERYTHEMAE MULTIFORMAE IS WHAT TYPE OF HYPERSENSITIVITY?
TYPE 4
SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
ET: SOLAR INJURY, CHRONIC INJURY
POORLY PIGMENTED SKIN
WART LIKE (VERRUCOUS)
COMMON ON EAR TIPS, EYELIDS, FACE
MELANIN- HYPERPIGMENTATION
HYPERMELANOSIS, INCREASE IN MELANIN PRODUCTION
ET: ENDOCRINE- CUSHINGS, HYPOTHYROID, CHRONIC INFLAMMATION, FLEA ALLERGY
MELANIN- HYPOPIGMENTATION
HYPOMELANOSIS VITILIGO COPPER DEFICIENCY AUTOIMMUNE PIEBALDISM ALBINISM
IS ERYTHEMA MULTIFORMAE OR TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROSIS MORE SEVERE WHY?
EM- MILDER
SINGLE CELL APOPTOSIS
TEN- MORE SEVERE
SHEETS OF APOPTOSIS/NECROTIC CELLS (RESEMBLES A BURN)
ACANTHOSIS
INCREASED THICKNESS OF STRATUM BASALE AND SPINOSUM
HYPOTRICHOSIS
LESS HAIR THAN NORMAL
HEREDITARY
CAN BE DUE TO BVDV IN UTERO
IMPETIGO
SUPERFICIAL PUSUTLAR DERMATITIS
=PUPPY PYODERMA
LOCATION: VENTRAL ABDOMEN
HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT LEAD TO VESICLE FORMATION
SPONGIOSIS- INTERCELLULAR EDEMA
HYDROPIC DEGENERATION- INTRACELLULAR EDEMA
ACANTHOLYSIS- DISRUPTION OF INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS
CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA
AGGRESSIVE POOR PROGNOSIS
T CELLS TUMOR IN SKIN
CHEMICALS THAT CAUSE BILIARY OBSTRUCTION
RED LANTANA
TRIBULUS, PANCIUM
SPORODESMIN
HEPATOTOXINS SUCH AS AFLATOXIN
PALPABLE ELEVATION FILLED WITH CLEAR FLUID
VESICLE <1CM
BULLA >1CM
PATH= DEGENERATION AND NECROSIS, INFLAMMATION AND REPAIR
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF CRUSTS
DISORDERS OF KERATINIZATION
SEVERE PUSTULAR DERMATITIS
SECONDARY TO ULCERS
WHEALS
ELEVATED IRREGULAR SHAPE
CUTANENOUS EDEMA
OFTEN FLAT SURFACE
WHAT TO DO WHEN COLLECTING A BIOPSY
BIOPSY BEFORE TREATMENT
BE GENTLE
COLLECT MULTIPLE SAMPLES TO INCLUDE RANGE OF TISSUE
INCLUDE CRUSTS
SECONDARY SEBORRHEA DUE TO
ENDOCRINE IMBALANCE OR CHRONIC DERMATITIS
BREEDS PRONE TO PRIMARY IDIOPATHIC SEBORRHEA
COCKERS SPRINGERS WESTIES
WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN COLLECTING A BIOPSY
SURGICALLY PREP THE SITE
GRASP WITH FORCEPS
BIOPSY THE CENTER OF A LESION
HOLD OUT ON HISTORY OR DDX
PRIMARY PHOTOSENSITIZATION TYPE 2
INTRINSIC
CAUSE- PORPHYRIA
LIPOMA
BENIGN GROWTH
LOOKS LIKE FAT ON HISTO
PAPILLOMAS
ET PAPILLOMA VIRUS
CAULIFLOWER LIKE
BENIGN GROWTHS
CAN REGRESS
SEBACEOUS ADENOMA
BENIGN GROWTH IN DOGS
WHITE, YELLOW, GREASY, LUMPY
INFECTIOUS GRANULOMATOUS DERMATITIS
SWAMP CANCER- FUNGAL DERMATITIS- PHYTHIUM INSIDIUM
ACTINOMYCES, NOCARDIA
MYCOBACTERIAL DERMATITIS= FELINE LEPROSY= MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAEMURIUM
CALLUS
OCCURS ON AREAS OF FRICTION IE ELBOWS
DEGENERATION AND NECROSIS OF THE SKIN
TENDS TO ULCERATE
BECOMES INFLAMM AND REPAIR OVER TIME
PRIMARY CIRCULATORY DISORDERS TEND TO CAUSE
CALCINOSIS CUTIS
ASSOCIATED WITH CUSHINGS
WHITE, GRITTY PLAQUES AND NODULES
COLLAGEN DYSPLASIA
COLLAGEN HAS UNDERGONE DYSPLASIA—> DISORGANIZATION, CHANGE IN SHAPE /SIZE
SKIN IS VERY ELASTIC
VITILIGO
AUTOIMMUNE
MELANOCYTES ARE ATTACKED CAUSING LIGHT COLORED PATCHES
2ND DEGREE THERMAL BURN
EPIDERMIS AND DERMIS
VESICLE FORMATION
SOME ADNEXA PRESERVED ALLOWED EPIDERMAL REGENERATION AND SOME SCARRING
GROSS APPEARANCE OF ALLERGIC SKIN DISEASE
+HISTO FINDINGS
SELF INFLICTED TRAUMA, ERYTHEMA, SECONDARY PYODERMA, LICHENIFICATION, SCALING, HYPERPIGMENTATION
LYMPHOCYTIC AND EOSINOPHILIC
PIEBALDISM
LACK OF MELANOCYTES
ALOPECIA
ACQUIRED HAIR LOSS
ENDOCRINE DISORDERS- HYPOTHYROID, HYPERADRENOCORTICISM (BILATERAL AND SYMMETRICAL)
SELF TRAUMA OR OVERGROOMING
AUTOIMMUNE
POOR NUTRITION
ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERPIGMENTATION AND HYPERKERATOSIS
DEPIGMENTATION IS _____ MEDIATED
IMMUNE
PHOTOSENSITIZATION
EPIDERMAL NECROSIS OF LIGHTLY PIGMENTED SPARSELY HAIRED SKIN
CUTANEOUS SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
COMMON IN DOGS SPINDLE CELL TUMORS LOCALLY INVASIVE SLOW TO METASTASIZE REMOVE IT!
MUCINOSIS
MUCIN NORMALLY IN DERMIS—> THICKENED GELATINOUS SKIN
SKIN IS FRAGILE- MORE PRONE TO PYODERMA
ERYTHEMA MULTIFORMAE / TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROSIS
WIDESPREAD COALESCING OF ERYTHEMATOUS MACULES LEADING TO VESICLES AND ULCERS
HYPERSENSITIVITY LEADS TO APOPTOSIS OF KERATINOCYTES
PALPABLE, SOLID, ELEVATED MASS
PAPULE <1CM
NODULE >1CM
PATH PROCESS- INFLAMMATION AND REPAIR, DISORDER OF GROWTH, DEGENERATION AND NECROSIS
MDX OF SKIN =
________ DERMATITIS
EPITHELIOGENESIS IMPERFECTA
EPITHELIUM DOES NOT FORM AT ALL
ALWAYS A FATAL CONDITION
FROSTBITE
DRY GANGRENE NECROSIS DUE TO EXTREME COLD
VASCOCONSTRICTION-ENDOTHELIAL DAMAGE- THROMBOSIS- INFARCTION
DISTRIBUTION- TIPS OF EARS, NOE, TOES, TAIL
PORTAL FOR SEPTICEMIA
SHARP DEMARCATION
CONTACT DERMATITIS
TYPE 4 HYPERSENSITIVITY
OFTEN SEEN IN POORLY HAIRED AREAS
ALBINISM
UNABLE TO SYNTHESIZE MELANIN
CALCINOSIS CIRCUMSCRIPTA
YOUNG, FAST GROWING, LARGE BREED DOGS
OFTEN ON PRESSURE POINTS OR PREVIOUS INJURY
ACRAL LICK DERMATITIS
NOT A TRUE GRANULOMA
=DERMAL FIBROSIS, HYPERPLASIA
EXUDATIVE DERMATITIS
=GREASY PIG DISEASE
ET: STAPHYLOCOCCUS HYICUS
CS: ERYTHEMA, PUSTULES, CRUSTS
PREDISPOSING FACTORS: POOR NUTRITION, POOR HYGIENE, LESIONS, LACERATIONS
MAST CELL TUMOR
IN DOGS- CAN BE MALIGNANT
CATS/HORSES- BENIGN
EOSINOPHILIC
PALPABLE ELEVATION FILLED WITH PUS
PUSTULE
PATH= INFLAMMATION AND REPAIR
CAUSE= LEUKOCYTE INFILTRATE
VESICULAR DISEASES
VIRAL OR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
REPORTABLE
ET: HERPESVIRUS, POXVIRUS, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS, SWINE VESICULAR DISEASE, VESICULAR EXANTHEMA OF SWINE
ZINC RESPONSIVE DERMATOSIS
DEFECT IN ZINC ABSORPTION
ARTIC BREEDS- HUSKIES AND MALAMUTES
ALLERGY SKIN DISEASE CAUSES (4)
ATOPY
FOOD ALLERGY
CONTACT HYPERSENSITIVITY
INSECT BITE HYPERSENSITIVITY
ACUTE DERMAL NECROSIS/ CHRONICALLY LOCALLY EXTENSIVE CUTANEOUS ULCER
SOLAR INJURY
CAUSES ERYTHEMA.. VESICLES… SLOUGHING OF NECROTIC SKIN
COMMON HEMORRHAGES OF SKIN
PETECHIAE
ECCHYMOSIS
CAUSES OF VESICLES
AUTOIMMUNE DERMATOSIS, VIRAL INFECTIONS*, CHEMICAL IRRITANTS, BURNS
MDX FOR CHRONIC SUN EXPOSURE
EPIDERMAL HYPERPLASIA
DERMAL FIBROSIS AND ELASTOSIS
SECONDARY PHOTOSENSITIZATION
TYPE 3 HEPATOGENOUS POOR HEPATIC CLEARANCE OF PHYLLOERYTHRIN= RUMINAL DIGESTION OF CHLOROPHYLL LEADS TO BILIARY OBSTRUCTION *****IN CATTLE ONLY ***
LICHENIFICATION
THICKENING AND HARDENING OF THE SKIN
CAUSE- CHRONIC IRRITATION AND INFLAMMATION
PATH PROCESS- INFLAMMATION AND REPAIR
SUPPURATIVE/PUSTULAR/EXUDATIVE/ NEUTROHILIC DERMATITIS
BACTERIA OR AUTOIMMUNE
DERMATOPHYTOSIS
RINGWORM
ET: EPIDERMOPHYTON, MICROSPORUM, TRICHOPHYTON
SELF LIMITING IN HEALTHY ANIMALS
COMMON IN TROPICS DUE TO MOISTURE AND HEAT
FUNGUS LIVES IN KERATIN
CHARACTERISTICS OF CANINE INTEGUMENT
THIN STRATUM CORNEUM
LACK OF LIPID SEAL OF HAIR FOLLICLES
HIGH SKIN PH
EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMAS
MILIARY DERMATITIS IN CATS- SMALL PAPULES IN CLUSTERS
EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA COMPLEX IN CATS- USUALLY ON FACE, MOUTH, OR ABDOMEN
SUMMER SORES- LARVAL MIGRATION OF HABRONEMA OR DRASCHIA MEGASTOMA
PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA
TYPE 3 HYPERSENSITIVITY
IMMUNE MEDIATED VASCULITIS
ET: STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP EQUI
CAUSES ECCHYMOTIC HEMORRHAGES
WHAT VESICULAR DISEASE DO HORSES GET?
VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS
CHRONIC UV EXPOSURE LEADS TO:
SOLAR/ACTINIC KERATOSIS
INCREASED RISK OF NEOPLASIA
CAUSES OF DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALIES.. IN UTERO EXPOSURE ..
TERATOGENS
TOXIC PLANTS
GRISEOFULVIN
PYOTRAUMATIC DERMATITIS
= HOT SPOTS
SELF TRAUMA THAT LEADS TO BACTERIAL INFECTION
ALLERGIC DERMATITIS (ESP FLEA ALLERGY DERMATITIS)
PUSTULES/CRUST SHOWS THAT THERE IS A ______ COMPONENT
INFLAMMATORY
EARLY DERMATITIS SIGNS
EDEMA
ERYTHEMA
+/- PUSTULES, CRUST, VESICLES
SARCOPTIC MANGE
ET SARCOPTES SCABEI
ZOONOTIC
PROLIFERATIVE DERMATITIS
VIRAL!!!!!
GROSS: PAPULES, PROLIFERATION, CRUSTS
HISTO: LEUKOCYTES, INTRACELLULAR EDEMA WITH INCLUSION BODIES
ORF!!! =CONTAGIOUS ECTHYMA
EPIDERMAL COLLARETTE
CIRCULAR RIM OF SCALE THAT OCCURS SECONDARY TO RUPTURE OF VESICLE, PAPULE, OR PUSTULE
CHEMICAL BURNS
CAUSED BY
BODY-WOUND SECRETIONS
DRUG APPLICATION
EXPOSURE TO ACIDS, DETERGENTS, ALKALIES, SOAPS, IRRITANT PLANTS
MAY HAVE LESIONS IN MOUTH/GIT IF INGESTED **
CAUSES OF ULCERS
EPIDERMAL NECROSIS
INFLAMMATION
INFARCTION
NEOPLASIA
DRIED EXUDATE- SERUM, BLOOD, SCALE THAT IS ADHERED TO SKIN SURFACE
CRUST
PATH= DEGENERATION AND NECROSIS, INFLAMMATION AND REPAIR, DISORDER OF GROWTH
EPIDERMAL HYPERPLASIA CAN BE EITHER ______ OR ________
ACANTHOSIS
HYPERKERATOSIS
INFARCTS OF SKIN
SHARPLY DEMARCATED AND GEOMETRICAL
ET: ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE= DIAMOND SKIN DISEASE SEPTICEMIA EDEMA DISEASE ECOLI PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA SNAKE BITE FROSTBITE
PRIMARY PHOTOSENSIZATION TYPE 1
EXOGENOUS
CAUSES-
DRUGS OR PLANTS CONTAINING PHOTOSENSITIVE CHEMICALS
ST. JOHNS WART, LUCERNE, PERENNIAL RYEGRASS
HEMANGIOMA/SARCOMA
ET: SOLAR RADIATION
VISCERAL»_space; MALIGNANT THAN SKIN
VASCULAR DAMAGE TO SKIN
CAUSES OF PAPULES
INFILTRATE OF INFLAMMATORY CELLS
INFILTRATE OF NEOPLASTIC CELLS
EPIDERMAL HYPERPLASIA
DEPOSIT OF MINERAL
IDIOPATHIC STERILE GRANULOMA SYNDROME
PUPPY STRANGLES
JUVENILE STERILE GRANULOMATOUS DERMATITIS
HYPERKERATOSIS
INCREASED THICKNESS OF STRATUM CORNEUM
DRY FORM- SCALING, DRY, WHITE FLAKES
GREASY FORM- SEBACEOUS GLANDS OVER PRODUCE
INTERTRIGO
SKIN FOLD PYODERMA
PREDISPOSITION= SKIN FOLD BREEDS (THINK BULLDOG WRINKLES)
CHEMICAL BURN CAUSE IN ST KITTS
MANCHINEEL TREE!
ICHTHYOSIS
KERATINOCYTES DO NOT SLOUGH CORRECTLY
SKIN LOOKS LIKE FISH SCALES
INSECT BITE HYPERSENSITIVITY
TYPE 1 AND TYPE 4 HYPERSENSITIVITY
CULICOIDES, FLEAS, MOSQUITOS
USUALLY ON BASE OF TAIL AND NOSE
ACCUMULATION OF LOOSE KERATINIZED CELLS
SCALE
PATH - INFLAMMATION/REPAIR , DISORDER OF GROWTH
MELANOMA WHERE IS IT BENIGN? WHERE IS IT MALIGNANT?
MALIGNANT- MUCOUS MEMBRANES, ORAL CAVITY, DIGITS
BENIGN- SKIN
LOSS OF EPIDERMIS WITH EXPOSURE OF DERMIS
ULCER
PATH- DEGENERATION/NECROSIS, INFLAMMATION/REPAIR, CIRCULATORY DISORDER, DISORDER OF GROWTH