Dermatologic Disease Flashcards
What group of inherited conditions has two or more ectodermal derived anatomic structures fail, typically including Skin, hair, nails, teeth, sweat glands?
Ectodermal Dysplasia
Which best known ectodermal dysplasia is x-linked with Male predominance, and is characterized by heat intolerance, fine, sparse hair, periocular wrinkling with hyper pigmentation and fewer, conical shapped teeth?
Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
A genetically determined skin disorder is called a?
Genodermatosis
What AD lesion in keratin appears at birth or early childhood as a symmetrical thick, white, digress plaque on the bilateral buccal mucosa?
White sponge Nevus
*bening condition with no treatment
What rare condition is characterized by Freckle-like lesions of the hands, perioral skin, and oral mucosa (lips especially), Intestinal polyposis
and a predisposition for affected patients to develop cancer?
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
*intestinal polyps are not premalignant
Peutz-Jeghers syndrom patients are how many times more likely to have malignancy in their lifetime?
18x
*GI adenocarcinoma or other tumors such as breast cancer
What condition is characterized by CNS manifestations, Angiofibromas of the skin, Ungual (or perungual) fibromas (fingernails), and Characteristic skin lesions?
Tuburous Sclerosis
What are the 3 CNS manifestations of Tuburous Sclerosis?
1-Mental retardation
2-Seizure disorders
3-Potato-like growths (“tubers”)
What are the two characteristic skin lesions of Tuburous Sclerosis?
1-Shagreen Patches (connective tissue hamartomas)
2-Ash-leaf spots (ovoid areas of hypo pigmentation)
What condition has oral lesions that are the first to show but last to go?
Pemphigus Vulgaris
The intraepithelial split that takes place in Pemphigus vulgaris is due to antibodies directed at what?
Desmosomes
A bulla being induced with lateral pressure on normal appearing skin is called what?
Positive Nikolsky sign
*characteristic of pemphigus vulgaris
Localized pemphigus in a small 1 cm or less usually on the palate is called?
Hailey Hailey Disease
AKA Cicatricial pemphigoid, what condition is characterized by an intraoral blood blister and is twice as common as pemphigus?
Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid
What are the two stages of occular involvement in mucous membrane pemphigoid?
1-Symblepharons (Scarring adhesions resulting from inflamed conjunctiva)
2-Entropion (eyelid turns inward)
A subepithelial split is observed in what condition where antibodies attack the basement membrane?
Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid
Which blistering, ulcerative mucocutaneous condition of uncertain etiopathogenesis is usually due to a preceding infection or exposure to medication?
Erythema Multiforme
*acute onset with a spectrum of clinical disease. Prodromal symptoms.
When erythema multiforme is caused by infection it is usually _________ And when it is caused by medication it is usually _______
Herpes simplex
Antibiotics
What characteristic erythematous lesions develop in Erythema Multiforme?
Target lesions
*also crusting of the vermilion zone of the lips
Steven Johnson syndrome is usually triggered by a drug, involves skin, oral mucosa and either ocular or genital mucosa and is known as what?
Erythema Multiforme Major
What is the most severe form of Erythema Multiforme?
Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
AKA geographic tongue or Benign Migratory glossitis, what condition has a serpentine border and can change from day to day?
Erythema Migrans
What condition is characterized by a lace like network of white lines known as wickhams striae?
Lichen Planus
If a lichen planus looking lesion is due to medication or amalgam it is known as?
Lichenoid mucositis