Dermatology Overview Flashcards
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What is a primary lesion?
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- may be present at birth or result of disease, allergic reaction or enviornmental agents
- a primary lesion in one disease may be a secondary lesion in another
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What is this primary lesion?
- flat, even with the surface level of surrounding skin
- perceptible only as an area of color different from the surrounding skin
- touch it and cant tell its different from any other part of skin
- smaller than 0.5 cm
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Macule
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What is this primary lesion?
- solid, elevated lesion less than 0.5 cm in size
- a significant portion projects above the plane of the surrounding skin
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Papule
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What is this primary lesion?
- similar to a macule
- flat area of skin or mucous membranes with a different color from its surrounding
- larger than 0.5 cm, and it may have a fine, very thin scale
- Larger version of a macule
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Patch
5
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What is this primary lesion?
- Solid, plateau-like elevation that occupies a relatively large surface are in comparison with its height above the normal skin level
- diameter larger than 0.5 cm
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Plaque
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What is this primary lesion?
- fluid-filled cavity or elevation smaller than or equal to 0.5cm
- the fluid in the cavity exerts equal pressure in all directions to give rise to a spherical shape
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vesicle
7
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What is this primary lesion?
- measures larger than 0.5 cm
- the fluid in the cavity exerts equal pressure in all directions to give rise to a spherical shape
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Bulla (Blister)
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What is this primary lesion?
- solid, round or ellipsoidal, palpable lesion
- diameter larger than 0.5 cm
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Nodule
- tumor, also sometimes included under the heading of nodule, is a general term for any mass, benign or malignant
9
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What is this primary lesion?
- swelling of the skin that is characteristically evanescent, disappearing within hours
- also known as hives or uticaria
- the result of edema produced by the escape of plasma through vessel walls in the upper portion of the dermis
- may be tiny papules or giant plaques, and they may take the form of various shapes (round, oval, serpiginous, or annular), often in the same patient
- disapears on its own
- scratch skin and it stays–>but eventually will go away
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Wheal
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What is this primary lesion?
- Encapsulated cavity or sac line with a true epithelium that contains fluid or semisolid material (cells and cell products such as keratin)
- spherical or oval shape results from the tendency of the contents to spread equally in all directions
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cyst
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What is a secondary lesion?
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- changes in the skin result from primary skin lesions
- can be natural progression, or result of patient manipulating (picking) the primary lesion
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- a defect in which the epidermis and at least the upper (papillary) dermis have been destroyed
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Ulcer
13
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What is this secondary lesion?
- flat plate or flake arising from the outermost layer of the stratum corneum
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Scale, Desquamation
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What is this secondary lesion?
- hardened deposits that result when serum, blood, or purulent exudate dries on the surface of the skin
- the color is a yellow-borwn when formed from dried serous secretion
- turbid yellowish-green when formed from purulent secretion
- reddish-black when formed from hemorrhagic secretion
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Crust
- removal of the crust may reveal an underlying erosion or ulcer
- Honey crusted lesion
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What is this secondary lesion?
- moist, circumbscribed depressed lesion that results from loss of a portion or all of the viable epidermal or mucousal epithelium
- may result from trauma, detachment of epidermal layers with maceration, rupture of vesicles or bullae, or epidermal necrosis
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- Erosions
- do not scar unless become secondarily infected
- this can be the beginning of a bed sore
- drug rxs, burns
16
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What is this secondary lesion?
- Surface excavations of epidermis that result from scratching
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Excoriation
17
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What is this secondary lesion?
- Proliferation of fibrous tissue that replaces previously normal collagen after a wound or ulceration breaches the reticular dermis
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Scar
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What is this secondary lesion?
- Reactive thickening of the epidermis, with changes in the collagen of the underlying superficial dermis
- These changes produce a thickened skin with accentuated markings, which may resemble tree bark
- from excessive itching
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Lichenification
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- Diminution in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or part of the body.
- An atrophic epidermis is glossy, almost transparent, paper thin and wrinkled, and may not retain normal skin lines.
- Paper like appearance of skin
- get common skin tears
- as our collagen depletes
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Atrophy
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- Deep, necrotizing folliculitis with suppuration.
- Presents as an inflamed follicle-centered nodule usually greater than 1 cm with a central necrotic plug and an overlying pustule
- Several furuncles may coalesce to form a carbuncle.
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Furuncle
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- Localized accumulation of purulent material so deep in the dermis or subcutaneous tissue that the pus is usually not visible on the surface of the skin
- Pink, erythematous, warm, tender, fluctuant nodule
- so deep it doesnt have a white head
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Abscess
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- Wavy, threadlike tunnel through the outer portion of the epidermis excavated by a parasite
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Burrow
- Scabies burrow under the skin
23
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• represents the blanchable pink to red color of skin or mucous membrane that is due to dilatation of arteries and veins in the papillary and reticular dermis
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Erythema
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- Extravasation of red blood from cutaneous vessels into skin or mucous membranes
- Results in reddish-purple lesions
- The application of pressure with two glass slides or an unbreakable clear lens (diascopy) on a reddish-purple lesion is a simple and reliable method for differentiating redness due to vascular dilatation (erythema) from redness due to extravasated erythrocytes or erythrocyte products (purpura).
- Non-blanching
- more systemic issues going on
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Purpura
25
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- Purpura less than 1 cm in diameter
- can see these in eyes from increase pressure and capillaries bursting
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Petechiae
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- Persistent dilatations of small capillaries in the superficial dermis that are visible as fine, bright, non-pulsatile red lines or net-like patterns on the skin
- very common
- spider veins
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Telangiectasia
27
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- Hair follicle infundibulum that is dilated and plugged by keratin and lipids
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Comedo (Comedone)
- When open to the surface of the skin with a visible keratinaceous plug, the lesion is referred to as an open comedo.
- The black color of the comedo is due to the oxidized sebaceous content of the infundibulum (“blackhead”)
- A closed infundibulum in which the follicular opening is unapparent accumulates whitish keratin and is called a closed comedo. (“whitehead)
28
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- Hyperkeratotic conical mass of cornified cells arising over an abnormally differentiating epidermis
- not cancerous or harmful
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Horn
29
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- Deposits of calcium in the dermis or subcutaneous tissue may be appreciated as hard, whitish nodules or plaques, with or without visible alteration of the skin’s surface
- built up calcium but not harmful
- usually around sun damaged area
- but can occur anywhere
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Calcinosis
30
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- Linear loss of continuity of the skin’s surface or mucosa that results from excessive tension or decreased elasticity of the involved tissue.
- Frequently occur on the palms and soles where the thick stratum corneum is least expandable
- skin breaks open
- over dryness leads to decreased elaticity
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Fissure
31
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- Excessive accumulation of scale (hyperkeratosis) that results in a yellowish thickening of the skin
- Usually on the palms or soles, that may be inherited (abnormal keratin formation) or acquired (mechanical stimulation)
- overworked area of skin
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Keratoderma
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- Linear depressions of the skin that usually measure several centimeters in length and result from changes to the reticular collagen that occur with rapid stretching of the skin
- skin grows too quickly
- rapidly expanding of skin
- stretch marks
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Striae
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- Tract connecting deep suppurative cavities to each other or to the surface of the skin
- everything is connected and channeling
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Sinus
34
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Ring shaped
- Edge of lesion differs from center
- Raised
- Scaly
- Differing color
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Annular
35
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Coin shaped
- Uniform morphology from edges to center
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Nummular
36
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Coalescing circles, rings or incomplete rings
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Polycyclic
37
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Arc-shaped
- Often incomplete formation of annular lesion
- not completely formed yet so can be a precursor to anular
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Arcuate
38
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What is this distribution of lesion?
• Resembling straight line
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Linear
39
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Net-like or lacy in appearance
- Somewhat regularly spaced rings or partial rings
- Sparing of intervening skin
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Reticular
40
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Serpentine or snake-like
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Serpiginous
41
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Target-like
- At least 3 distinctive zones
- usually seen with lyme disease
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Targetoid
42
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What is this distribution of lesion?
- Like marble cake
- Two distinct colors interspersed in a wavy pattern
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Whorled
