Dermopathology - Dr. Martin Flashcards
Freckle
Pigmentation and melanocytes disorders (usually after sun exposure)
High melanin in basal keratinocytes (hyperpigmentation)
Changes with seasons
Lentigo
What is it
Benign usually in children / infancy and mucus membrane and skin
(Check oral)
5mm - 10mm oval tan-brown macule or patch (no darkening with sunlight)
Pigmentation and melanocytes disorders (hyperplasia, linear, restricted to right above BM)
Melanocytic nevus (mole)
Pigmentation and melanocytes disorders
P16/INK4a does not arrest
Dysplasitic Nevi
Risk for melanoma by age 60yo
AD
CDKN2A or CDK4 gene that get the NRAS and BRAF mutation
Biopsy of a skin things like nevi
Do the periphery of it since the middle are more dead cells
Melanoma
UV radiation damage High incidence (GI, GU, skin, eye, esophagus) TX: immune checkpoint inhibitor Sporadic mostly (sunburns you’ve had)
Melanoma risks
Equator
Outdoor hobbies
Blistering sunburns
Lights skin and eyes
Melanoma in blacks and Asians should be examined where to find sx
Soles of feet
Palms
Nails
Mucous membranes
HMB-45 +
Staining into a LN
To see which one has the cell that started everything
Seborrheic keratoses (Seb K)
In scalp….
Ducts in skin biopsy
Shows it comes from a gland
= Cylendroma
AK
Sun damaged skin and hyperkeratosis Sandpaper Squamous cell carcinoma Certain = pink color Elastosis= blue
Dermatofibroma
Legs, adults, women
Goes down when pressed (not squeezed) = Dimple sign
Injury and inflammation can casue this benign thing
No capsule and well circumsribed
Spindle shaped
DFSP
COL1A1 PDGFB
Very firm and dense
Honeycomb look
Looks like fish swimming in circles
Ichthyosis
Fish scales looking
Not very serious
Testing for psoriasis
Lift one of the silvery scales and it bleeds
Seborrheic dermatitis
Sebum production in sebaceous glands
Can be associated with HIBV and Parkinson’s
Blistering Bullous Disease
Pemphigus vulgaris
IgG
Oral cavity
Exortiation
Traumatic lesions breaking skin (deep scratch)
Lichenification
Thickened rough skin (from repeated rubbing)
Macule
Circumcised flat lesion 5mm or smaller
Patch
Flat and circumscribed that is bigger then 5mm
Onycholysis
Separation of nail bed from nail plate
Papule
Elevated dome shaped or flat topped lesion 5mm or smaller