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Dermatology Flashcards

1
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What are the ABCDE warning signs?

A 
Asymmetry
Border
Color variation
Diameter larger than 6mm
Evolving
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What is important when documenting a lesion?

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Color, moisture, turgor, texture, temperature

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3
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What is Hirsutism?

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Abnormal hair growth in a female

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What are Beau’s Nails?

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Grooved lines that run from side to side

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5
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What are Mee’s Nails?

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White lines or bands that transverse the nail

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What are Lindsay’s Nails?

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Proximal portion of the nail is whitish in appearance while distal portion is red/pink/brown with a demarcation line between

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What are Koilonychia?

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Spoon nails

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What is pitting of the nail?

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Pinhead sized depressions in the nail

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What are splinter hemorrhages?

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Small areas of bleeding from capillaries under the nail

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What is a macule?

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Flat, non-palpable, smaller than 1 cm

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What is a patch?

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Flat, non-palpable, greater than 1 cm

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What is a wheal?

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Solid, palpable, superficial area of cutaneous edema

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What is a papule?

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Solid, palpable, smaller than 1 cm, elevated above skin surface

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What is a nodule?

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Solid, palpable, 1-2 cm, usually spherical and maybe palpated deeper below the skin surface

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What is a tumor?

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Solid, palpable, greater than 2 cm, solid mass

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What is a plaque?

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Solid, palpable, elevated, flat topped, superficial papule with surface area greater than height, usually larger than 1 cm

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What is a vesicle?

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Fluid filled, palpable, smaller than 1 cm, filled with serous fluid

18
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What is a bulla?

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Fluid filled, palpable, greater than 1 cm, filled with serous fluid

19
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What is a pustule?

A

Fluid filled, palpable, similar to vesicle but filled with pus

20
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What is a comedo?

A

Plugged openings of a sebaceous gland

21
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What is a burrow?

A

Smaller than 10mm raised tunnel

22
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What is a cyst?

A

Palpable lesion filled with semiliquid material or fluid

23
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What is an abscess?

A

Accumulation of purulrunt material in the dermis

24
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What is a furuncle?

A

Inflammation of a hair follicle

25
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What is a carbuncle?

A

A coalescence of several furuncles

26
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What is milia?

A

Tiny, keratin filled cysts

27
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What is erosion?

A

Loss of part or all of the epidermis, surface is moist

28
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What is an ulcer?

A

Loss of epidermis and dermis may bleed

29
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What is a fissure?

A

Linear crack from epidermis

30
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What is a excoriation?

A

Superficial linear or dug out traumatized area usually self induced

31
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What is atrophy?

A

Thinning of skin with loss of skin markings

32
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What is sclerosis?

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Diffuse or circumscribed hardening of skin

33
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What is scaling?

A

Heaped up keratinized cells, white flakes on the epidermis

34
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What is crusting?

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Brown covering composed of dried residue of pus, serum or blood

35
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What is a keloid?

A

Elevated enlarging scar growing beyond boundaries of wound

36
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What is lichenification?

A

Roughening and thickening of epidermis accentuated skin markings

37
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What is petechiae?

A

Reddish-purple, non-blanching, smaller than .5 cm

38
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What is purpura?

A

Reddish-purple, non-blanching larger than .5 cm

39
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What is ecchymosis?

A

A bruise; Reddish-purple, non-blanching, variable size

40
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What is telangiectasia?

A

Fine, irregular dilated blood vessels

41
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What is spider angioma?

A

Central red body with radiating spider like arms that blanch with pressure to the central area

PCM Exams OMS-1 Fall (3 decks)

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