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Dermatology Flashcards

1
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Go together areas

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Palms and soles, elbows and knees, intertriginous areas, mucous membranes, hair and nails, photo distribution

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Factors to assess on Derm issues

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History, colour, shape, size, arrangement, location, extent, borders, secondary lesions

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3
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Unusual shapes/asymmetric distribution may suggest

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External cause

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4
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Sharp borders suggest

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Epidermal process

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5
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Domed edges suggest

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Dermal, subcutaneous process

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6
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Excoriation

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Itchy

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White derm change

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Decreased melanocytes, melanin production or transfer, fibrous tissue

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Brown derm changes

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Increased melanocytes, increased production of melanin, thickening of the epidermis

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Red skin changes

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Dilated vessels, more vessels, blood outside vessels, collection of lymphocytes

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Yellow skin changes

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Sebum, fat, mast cells, histiocytes

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Acral areas

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Peripheral body parts - hands, feet, ears, nose

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Intertriginous areas

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Folded areas - axilla, groin, natal cleft, below boobs, abdo folds, elbow folds

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ABCDE

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Asymmetry, border, colour, diameter, evolution

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14
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Cafe du lait can be associated with

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Neurofibromarosis (if there are many cafe du laits)

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15
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Dermatitis herpetiformis associated with what disease

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Celiac disease

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16
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Hairy moles are called

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Congenital melanocytic hairy Nevis

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17
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Acanthosis nigricans

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Elevated insulin level stimulating the growth of the epidermis and causing it to turn brown

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18
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Lichen simplex chronicus

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Brown because of thickening of the skin due to scratching and rubbing

19
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Telangiectasia - spider Nevis

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Central red papule with radiating red arms

20
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Acne Vulgaris treatment

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Isotretinoin

21
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Most common skin malignancy

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Basal cell carcinoma

22
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Slow growing nodule with pearly, rolled borders

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Basal cell carcinoma

23
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Small painless papules commonly found on the back of upper arms

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Keratosis Pilaris

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Treatment for keratosis pilaris

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Emollients and topical keratolytics

25
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Presentation of hidradenitis suppurativa

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Chronic recurring lesions in intertriginous areas, can leave scarred plaques

26
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Risk factors for hidradenitis suppurativa

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Smoking, obesity, diabetes

27
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Treating hidradenitis suppurativa

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Topical clindamycin, oral tetracycline, surgical excisions

28
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Potassium hydroxide microscopy of skin scrapings is used to confirm

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Tinea corpora, pedis

29
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Rapidly growing nodule with ulceration and a central keratin plug

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Keratoacanthoma

30
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Keratoacanthomas may progress into invasive

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Squamous cell carcinoma

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Lichen planus 5 Ps

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Pruritis, purple/pink, polygonal, papules, plaques

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Treating lichen planus

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Betamethasone on lesions, systemic glucocorticoids, phototherapy

33
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Alopecia arreata treatment

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Intralesional corticosteroids

34
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Tinea versicolor bug is

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Malasezzia species

35
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Oral lichen planus looks like

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White patches and plaques inside the mouth +/- redness, mucosal atrophy, ulcers

36
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Tender red streaks from the area of a cutaneous wound heading in the direction of the drainage lymph node, swollen node

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Lymphangitis

37
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Treating lymphangitis

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Cephalexin

38
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Blisters in pemphigus vulgaris are

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Painful and flaccid, easily rupturing

39
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What demographic is usually affected by bullous pemphigoid?

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Older than 60

40
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Blisters in bullous pemphigoid

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Pruritic, tense bullae

41
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Oral aphthous ulcers can be a manifestation of what systemic disease

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Crohns disease

42
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Scabies treatment

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Permethrin cream

43
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Triamcinolone is a

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Topical corticosteroid

44
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Miconazole, terbinafine, tolnaftate are used for

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Skin fungal infections like tinea pedis

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