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1
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What are the adnexal structures?

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Hair
Nails
Glands
Sensory structures

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3 main layers of the skin

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Epidermins, dermins (strongest), hypodermis

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layers of epidermis

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Come Lets Get Sun Burnt

Stratum Corneum
Stratum Lucidum
Stratum Granulsum
Stratum Spinosum
Stratum Basal

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WHere foes nail begin? What is the lunula?

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Matrix, the lacunar (white moon shaped thing is the visable part that you can see)

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What are the 3 phases of hair cycle?

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Anagen (growing), Catagen (stops growing), Telogen (resting phase)

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How does the skin make vit D?

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UV light converts 7-dehydrocholesterol to cholecalciferol

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5 Ds of why skin disease is important

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Depression
Death
Disability
Disfigurement
Discomfort

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8
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What is pbotosensitivity

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Allergy to the light!! Can be UVA, UVB or even visable light, so have to test to decide which one it is

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9
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What is dermatitis artefacta

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When you self inflict injury to your dermis - often funky shapes etc don’t know where it has come from.

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What is neurofibrimoatosis?

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Lots of neurofibromas (lots of bubbly lups, looks a pit like a skin coloured aero chocolate bar)

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What is Bullous Pemphigoid

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Automimmune disease, casues bleeding blisters.

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12
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Small usually means how big?

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under 5mm

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13
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Flat small/large

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Falt small = macule
Flat large = patch

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Raised small/large

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Raised small = papule
Raised large = plaque

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Fluid/pus/loss of epidermis small/large

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Fluid:
Small = vesicle
Large = bulla

Loss of epidermis:
Small = erosion
Large = ulcer

Pus:
Small = pustule
Large = Abscess

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16
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What is a nodule?

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More raised than it is wide

17
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What are eruptive xsnthoma a sign of?

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Hyperlipidaemia (they’re small cottage cheese looking like blobs around)

18
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What is Acanthosis Nigricans?

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Velvetty dark chocolate/darker skin, often armpits.

If gradual onset can be related to insulin issues

If sudden can be a malignant thing

19
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What is Pretibial myxoedema

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A thyroid skin disease:
mucin deposits in the skin

20
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If suspect a bact. infection, what investigatino?

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charcol bacterial swap: MC&S (Microscopy, Culture and Sensitivities)

21
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If viral infection what investigations?

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Viral PCR. Swab bad fluid eg pop vesicle. If systemic then take a throat swab.

22
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Fungal infetion suspected ten what investigtions?

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Skin scsrping, nail clipping or hair sample - tested for fungal cultures

23
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Inflamatory condition, how to take a biopsy?

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Punch biopsy

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