Pigmented Lesions Flashcards
What does the Fitzpatrick skin type tell you?
Fairness of skin/Features
Tanning ability
What are the ABCDEs of when to worry about a mole?
Asymmetry Border Color Diameter Evolving
What are the considerations of an Atyical Nevi?
Appear near puberty
Inc risk of melanoma
What are the traits of Congenital Nevi?
Can have hair
Uniform in color
Flat. may become nodular
What are the traits of a junctional nevus?
Macule(flat) or slightly raised
Hairless
Junctional nevi
What is a compound nevus?
Elevated Vary in color Irregular or warty surface fair skin may regress w/ Hypopigmented Halo
Waht are the traits of Intradermal Nevi?
Nests of melanocytes in the dermis
Short Termnal hairs or pseudohorn cysts
older lesions may become pedunculated
What are the traits of Halo Nevi?
Round, sharply demarcated border
Usually on trunk
T lymphocytes
What are the traits of Speckled Lentiginous nevi?
Hairless, oval, or irregularly shaped brown lesion
Brown area flat, black dots are raised. Not from sun exposure
What are the traits of a Becker’s Nevus.
Adolescent men
Shoulders, submammary, upper/low back
What are the traits of Benign juvenile melanoma?
Look similar to melanoma
Hairless, red or brown, dome shaped papules or nodules
Inc VASCULARTIY. Bleeding following trauma. SUDDEN Onset
What is a Blue Nevus?
Large amount of brown pigment in dermis
Extremities and dorsum of hands
May turn to melanoma
What is a Labial Mlanotic Macule?
Brown macule
Lower lip
YA women
Benign
What are the traits of Vitiligo?
Acquired loss of pigmentation
AI disease?
Localized or generalized
What are nevus Anemicus?
Congenital Localized, pharm cutaneous anomaly.
on trunk
Friction, cold or heat doesn’t produce erythema
