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Equine Dermatology Flashcards

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Categories

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  • 1). Scaling + crusting - most common
  • 2). Lumps + bumps: papules, nodules, mass
  • 3). Pruritus/pain: skin trauma, rubbing, 2y hair loss from trauma
  • 4). Hair loss/changes in hair quality: 1y hair loss, skin fine
  • 5). Moist + exudative: uncommon
  • 6). Pigmentary changes: depigmentation most common
  • 7). Skin disease as part of a wider systemic disorder
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Insect bite hypersensitivity = Sweet itch, from Culicoides midge

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When are allergies seen?

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  • Not in foals
  • > 5/6 y/o
  • Sweet itch = > 2 y/o
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Papilloma - seen in young foals and yearlings due to limited immune response

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Where are sarcoids common

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  • Older horses
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Dermatophytosis

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  • Pastern dermatitis (mud fever) - triggered by persistent wetting of lower limbs
  • Skin irritation -> 2y infection
  • May be seen in other horses
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Insect bite hypersensitivity

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  • HERDA = genetic disease in quarter horses and appaloosas, especially cutting horses
  • Stretchy skin, severe skin wounds and scarring along the back and withers
  • Not that important
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Flat sarcoid

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Previous Tx making skin lesion worse

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Macule/patch

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  • Flat lesion = change in pigmentation, depigmentation usually
  • E.g. Vitiligo, post-inflammatory leucoderma, erythema multiforme
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Vitiligo

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Post-inflam leucoderma

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Erythema multiforme

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Papule

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  • Small raised lesion
  • < 1 cm
  • Usually infective - bacterial or fungal
  • Can be allergic but would present as larger wheals
  • E.g. Dermatophytosis
  • Staphyloccocal folliculitis or both
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Dermatophytosis

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Staphylococcal folliculitis

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Dermatophytosis + staphyloccocal folliculitis

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Nodule/mass

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Eosinophilic granulomas

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Sarcoid

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Melanoma

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Botriomycosis - draught breeds prone to chronic progressive lymphoedema -> fill w/ fluid -> irritation from feather lice scratch

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Plaque/wheal

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Urticaria

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Lymphoma

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Urticaria - hives allergic skin reaction

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Vesicle/bulla/pustule

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Pemphigus foliaceus = autoimmune pustules/crusts

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Alopecia/hypotrichosis

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Telogen defluxion - excessive hair shedding, been sick recently

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Lice

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Pemphigus foliaceus

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Alopecia areta - immune attack on hair follicles

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Sarcoid

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Dermatophytosis

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Hyperkeratosis/lichenification

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Linear keratosis

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Aural plaque (papilloma)

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Insect bite hypersensitivity

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Scale

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Seborrhoea

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Pemphigus foliaceus

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Chorioptes

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Sarcoidosis -> granulomatous chronic skin disease

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Crust

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Pastern dermatitis

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Dermatophytosis

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Cutaneous lupus

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Pemphigus foliaceus

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Ulcer/erosion

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Staphylococcal dermatitis

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Candidiasis

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Chemical burn

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Abrasion

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Photoaggravated vasculitis

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Intertrigo

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Mixed lesion

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Mucocutaneous

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EHV-3

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Rhinosporidium - fungal

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Abrasive diet

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Contact irritant

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Abrasive diet

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Cutaneous lupus

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Limb distribution

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Chorioptic mange

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Cannon keratosis

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Lymphoedema

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Photoaggravated vasculitis

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  • “Mallenders amd Sallenders”
  • Common in cobs + draught breeds
  • Back of carpi, front of tarsi
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Dorsal distribution

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Herda

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Dermatophytosis

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Dermoid cysts = directly in midline

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Eosinophilic granuloma = off to side of midline (DDx = dermoid cysts)

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Facial distribution

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Papilloma

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Sarcoid

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Dermatophyte

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Papilloma

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Pemphigus foliaceus

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Depigmentation

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Tack sites distribution

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Eosinophilic granulomas

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Staphylococcal foliculitis

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Staphylococcal folliculitis

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Mechanical abrasion

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Dermatophyte

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What must be included on PPEs?

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  • Examine, describe + record
  • Categorise + form list of DDx e.g. “1 cm diameter area of alopecia and scaling skin on right side of face. Probable ringworm but other causes such as fly-bite, bacterial dermatitis or flat sarcoid cannot be discounted”

AAA Y4 SEM2 (9 decks)

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