INDE Yr 2 Term 2 Flashcards
When to ideally do a breast exam
at the end of bleeding (first day of OCP)
peau d’orange
edema, but the skin is tethered by sweat ducts
what technique do we use for breast exam
vertical strip, 3 min per breast
where would supernuemary breasts be found?
anywhere along the milk line…subject to the same diseases as regular breasts
If you are doing a bimanual exam, which hand would feel an anteverted uterus and which hand would feel a retroverted uterus?
Anteverted: the abdominal hand
Retroverted: the internal hand, through the posterior vagina
How much to rotate the spatula and the cytobrush when you are doing a pap?
spatula: 360
cytobrush: 180
Should you do a pap on a menstruating woman?
technically no…
When to start cervical cancer screening? How often to screen?
21 y.o or 3 yrs after first sexual contact (including, digital and oral contact).
q12/12 until 3 normal, then at 24/12 intervals
What has a mocassin-like distribution?
tinea pedis
What might the toenails of a patient with DM neuropathy look like?
thickened
What do oncomychotic (is that a word?) nails look like? Occurs more often in…
What is the sequela we are trying to avoid?
In this condition, fungus is eating up the keratin in the nails. The toenails are thick, hyperkeratotic and friable (oncholysis)
adults
can develop into cellulitis
Do we recommend that women do self-exams?
Yes, they should do everything but the axilla part.
Drugs/exposures commonly associated with tinea effluvium?
antidepressants
OCP
sudden diet changes
What do the following techniques identify:
- woods lamp
- oil microscopy
- Tzanck smear
- KOH
- woods lamp: tinea capitis
- oil microscopy: scabies
- Tzanck smear: herpes
- KOH: fungal
Where is psoriasis normally found? Differentiate from eczema.
Psoriasis:
- extensor surfaces, scalp, post-auricular, lumbar, shins
- salmon red, papule, silver scale, sharp borders
Eczema:
- flexor surfaces
- intensely pruritic, moist, not well-circumscribed
Differentiate features of basal cell, actinic keratosis (–>SCC), nevi, melanoma
Basal cell: raised, pearly, red, sun exposed areas.
Actinic keratosis (–>squamous cell): well defined, scaly, nodular
Melanoma: brown/black/blue/white
What could cause hair coming out by the roots, vs. hair breaking off?
Coming out:
- telogen effluvium
- alopecia areata (T-cell mediated)
- androgenetic alopecia
Breaking:
- tinea capitis (infxn of follicle by Trichophyton tonsurans and microsporum canis
- hair shaft abnormalities (?genetic)
- traumatic hair practices
- trichotillomania
What is the DDx of cicatricial and non-cicatricial hair loss?
Cicatricial (scarring, loss of follicular ostia) :
- discoid lupus
- lichen planopilaris
Non-cicatricial- pretty much everything else
How many hairs is a normal and abnormal
6-10 is normal, 60 is NOT
What are the integuement signs of hypothyroid? Hyperthyroid?
HYPOTHYROID
- brittle, slow growing nails
- skin: swollen, waxy, cool, dry
- hair: thin and brittle
HYPERTHYROID
- fine, silky hair
- pretibial myexedma (incl. papules, nodules, plaques in pretibial region)
What are the components of the MSE?
ASEPTIC
Appearance Speech Emotion (mood and affect) Perception (hallucinations, illusion) Thought form and content (delusions) Insight & Judgement Cognition
asking the meaning of a proverb assesses what?
asking patients to identify similarities between objects tests what?
abstract thinking
logical thinking
Dominant and non-dominant parietal lesion may have the following symptoms…
Dominant:
- dyscalculia
- R-L confusion
- body part agnosia
- apraxia (?….not according to some textbooks)
non-dominant:
- directional sense
- construction
- dressing