Dermatology Flashcards
Macule (vitilgo)
Patch (café au lat macule)
Papule (MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM)
Plaque (PSORIASIS)
Nodule (BASAL CELL CARCINOMA)
Tumour (BASAL CELL CARCINOMA)
Vesicle (HERPES ZOSTER)
Bulla (BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID)
URTICARIA
Cyst (EPIDERMOID CYST)
Pustule (acne)
Scale (Tinea pedis)
Crust (IMPETIGO)
Atrophy (STRIAE)
Erosion (PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS: MORTEL ET URGENT)
Ulcer (diabetic ulcer)
Redness and scaling of more than 90% of the skin, caused by dermatitis, psoriasis, drug reactions, cutaneous T cell lymphoma or idiopathic.
What’s your diagnosis?
Erythroderma, EMERGENCY –> biopsy, supportive and symptomatic treatment to relief pain and itching
- Pain out of proportion
- Skin is shiny and tense
- Does not respond to antibiotics
- Progresses at an alarming rate
- Characteristic gray–blue color within 36 hours of onset due to vessel thrombosis
- Thin, watery, malodorous fluid
- Sick and septic
What’s your diagnosis?
Necrotizing fasciitis EMERGENCY
Massive immune reaction, presents as Stevens-Johnson syndrome, SKIN DETACHMENT, high complications and mortality.
What’s your diagnosis?
Severe trug reaction –> caused by drug (allopurinol ++, antibiotics, NSAIDS, anticonvulsants) EMERGENCY –> STOP causative drug, aggressive supportive care
Reaction to a drug 2-6 weeks later?
Dress syndrome EMERGENCY –> steroids for months
Pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis?
- Lack of filaggrin protein and other proteins, oil and moisture
- Hyperreaction of TH2
- Pruritus
- Redness
- Texture
- Typical morphology and distribution: depends on the age: starts on the extensors and on the face (baby) and ends on the flexors (adults)
- Chronic or chronically-relapsing
- Personal or family history
- Increased sensitivity to irritants and environmental stimuli
- Increased rates of infections
- Associated with atopic features (allergy, asthma, allergic rhinitis)
What’s your diagnosis?
Atopic dermatitis
Investigation rules of a skin lump/bump?
ABCDE Rule
- Asymmetry (color or bordr)
- Border (irregular)
- Colour (more than 2)
- Diameter (> 6mm)
- Evolution (wks-months)
EFG Rule (nodular or amelanotic subtypes)
- Elevated
- Firm
- Growing
Most important prognosis factor of skin lump/bump?
depth/thickness