Dermatology Flashcards
What is the most aggressive form of malignant melanoma?
Nodular melanoma
Most common type of melanoma?
superficial spreading
Who is most likely to get eczema herpeticum?
Children with a history of eczema
What causes eczema herpeticum?
HSV 1 or 2
Treatment for eczema herpeticum?
IV acyclovir
A young child with a history of atopic eczema develops a sudden eruption of painful, oedematous vesicles and pustules. They have are systemically unwell and have a fever
eczema herpeticum
First line treatment of mild acne rosacea?
Topical metronidazole
Treatment of severe acne rosacea?
Oxytetracycline
What does Bullous pemphigoid
look like?
Big blisters on the flexors
treatment of Bullous pemphigoid?
oral corticosteroids
Risk factors for fungal nail?
Increasing age, diabetes
First line treatment of fungal nail
oral terbinafine
Rapidly growing, vascular single raised spherical spot following trauma?
pyogenic granuloma
What precedes guttate psoriasis?
Strep infections 2-4 weeks before
Tear drop papules on the trunk and limbs are characteristic of?
Guttate psoriasis
What does lichen planus mean?
Flat tree moss
What area other than skin is affected in lichen planus?
Mucous membranes
Drugs causing lichenoid drug eruptions?
Gold, quinine and thiazides
Treatment of lichen planus?
Topical steroids
Treatment of oral lichen planus?
Benzydamine mouthwash
Common skin sites of lichen planus?
Wrist and inner elbow
What would be seen on biopsy in lichen planus?
saw tooth dermo-epidermal junction
hypergranulosis
Who is most likely to get pemphigus vulgaris?
Ashkenazi Jews
painful, flaccid, easily ruptured vesicles and bullae on the skin, preceded by mouth lesions?
Pemphigus vulgaris
What is seen on biopsy in pemphigus vulgaris?
acantholysis - loss of intercedllular connections
What conditions are related to pyoderma gangrenosum?
Inflamamtory bowel disease
connective tissue disorders
rheumatoid arthritis
A small red papule that later becomes a deep, red necrotic ulcer with a violet border?
Pyoderma gangrenosum
What organism causes seborrhoeic dermatitis?
Malassezia furfur (fungus)
first line treatment of seborrhoeic dermatitis?
Ketoconazole
Drugs that can worsen psoriasis?
NSAIDs, beta blockers, lithium, ace inhibitors
Skin rash wchich occurs in coeliac disease?
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Where does dermatitis herpatiformis affect?
elbows, knees, buttocks
Adverse affects of isotretinoin?
dry skin
teratogenicity
intracranial hypertension
What drug can you not co-prescribe with isotretinoin?
tetracyclines
Treatment of severe acne?
Isotretinoin
What are orange-peel like shin lesions called?
Pretibial myxoedema
What condition is pretibial myxoedema associated with?
Grave’s disease
Skin condition associated with T cell lymphoma?
Mycosis fungoides
Dermatitis, diarrhoea and dementia indicate?
Pellagra
What drug may cause pellagra?
Isoniazid
What causes pellagra?
Nicotinic acid deficiency
Pityriasis rosea initially causes…
Herald patch
In which condition would you see a herald patch?
Pityriasis rosea
Conditions associated with acanthosis nigricans?
Obesity
Type 2 diabetes