Red Lesions Flashcards
Vesicle vs ulcer
Vesicle may lose overlyring epithelium and become an ulcer
Epidermolysis Bullosa
Genetic
Cause
Tx
Apperance
- Familial hx, congenital or childhood
- Defect in the attachment mechanisms of the epithelial cells
- No cure
- Management: supportive
- Vessicles and bullae due to minor trauma
- Oral lesions
- bullae heal with scarring
- Hypoplastic teeth

Viral Diseases
Gen symptoms
- Acute onset
- May have malaise, fever, lymphadenopathy
- lymphadenopathy not present in recurrent herpes and zoster
- Multiple ulcers
- All have vesicle stage except infectious mononucleosis
- Herpes and zoster are the ony recurring ones
Human Herpes Virus 1-8 names
- HHV 1- HERPES SIMPLEX
- HHV2- HERPES SIMPLEX
- HHV3- VARICELLA ZOSTER
- HHV4-EPSTEIN-BARR
- HHV5- CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
- HHV6- ROSEOLA VIRUS
- HHV7- ROSEOLA-LIKE
- HHV8- KAPOSI SARCOMA
HSV Primary Herpes
Age
Symptoms
Distribution
- Usually children, adults too
- Most are asymptomatic
- Symptoms
- lymphadenopathy
- malaise fever diarrhea
- Enlarged gingiva, red painful
- Multiple vesicles and ulcers, may coalesce
- Ulcerations must be on keratinized AND non-keratinized

HSV Latency and Reactivation
- Remains latent in regional nerve ganglion
- Reactivation cause is unknown, assoc with
- UV
- Trauma
- Immunosuppresion
- Prodrome: tingling, burning
Recurrent Herpes
Apperance
Assoc
Tx
- Vessicles and ulcers
- in small clusters
- On vermilion border, perioral skin and limited to keratinized oral mucosa
- Recur in same location each time
- Vermillion border common-herpes labialis
- Lymphadenopathy NOT present
- Tzanck cells
- Tx Valacyclovir taken during prodrome

Herpetic Withlow
Infection of fingers
Herpes gladiatorum or scrumpox
Wrestles, rugby with contaminated abrasions
Herpes Barbae
Herpes over bearded region into minor injuries from shaving
Varicella-zoster Chickenpox
symptoms
Causes
- Prodrome: malaise, fever lymphadenopathy
- Succesive crops of pruritic papules, vesicles, ulcers
- Begin on trunk and spread to extremeties and face
- occasional oral vesicles
Herpes Zoster (shingles)
What is it
Predisposing factors
Apperance distribution
Side effects
- Latent stage of Varicella
- Zoster represents a recurrence
- Predisposing factors
- immunosuppresion due to cancer, chemo, corticosteroids
- Elderly
- Prodrome
- Vesicles and ulcers
- Unilateral
- follows peripheral nerve distribution
- Post-herpetic neuralgia-pain in nerve distribution

Infectious Mononucleosis
Virus
Assoc
Symptoms
Oral mucosa apperance
- Epstein Barr HHV4
- Assoc with
- Burkitts lymphoma
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Hairy leukoplakia
- Fever malaise cervical lymphadenopathy, pharyngitis
- Oral mucosa
- erythomatous
- Petechiae on palate
- Ulcers WITHOUT vesicles
Hand foot mouth disease
Cause
Symptoms
Apperance
Tx
- Coxsackievirus grp A
- Flu like sysmptoms
- malaise mild fever diarrhea
- Vesicles and ulcers throughout oral cavity (1st to appear)
- Macules and vesicles on hands and feet
- Tx
- tylenol
- Clears in 5 days

Herpangina
Cause
Symptoms
Apperance
Dist
tx
- Coxsackievirus grp A
- Symptoms
- Fever, pharyngitis, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lymphadenopathy
- App
- similar to HFM but confined to posterior cavity
- Soft palate, uvula, tonsilar pillar
- tx
- resolves in several days
Measles
Cause
Apperance
Dist
- Paramyxovirus
- RNA virus spread via respiratory droplets
- Apperance
- Kopliks spots
- Mucosal erythema
- Small blue white macules
- Buccal labial mucosa
Errosive Lichen Planus
Cause
Apperance Dist
Assoc
- Immune abnormality, oversensitive T cells
- Lichenoid drug rxns
- Graft vs host
- Apperance
- Erythema, painful erosions and ulcers white striae periphery
- Vesicles are rare
- Dist
- Bilateral, focal or multifocal
- Assoc
- Atrophy of filiform papilae
- Oral candidosis common
Pemphigus Vulgaris
Cause
App
Dist
Histo/Biopsy
Tx
- Autoantibodies to desmosomes
- App
- Blisters rupture easily forming painful ulcers
- Nikolsky sign
- Dist
- Large areas of skin/mucosa
- Usually Multifocal
- Histo Biopsy
- Tzanck cells
- 2 samples one in formalin, Michels soln
- Tx
- Corticosteroids
- Fatal w/o tx
Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid
Cause
App
Dist
Prognosis
Tx
- Antibodies against hemidesmosomes
- App
- Vesicles and painful ulcers
- May heal with scarring
- Erythematous gingiva
- Chronic desquamative gingiva
- Nikolsky
- Dist
- Extraoral- Conjunctiva
- Nasal, pharyngeal, vaginal mucosa
- Skin
- Prognosis
- good, monitor eye lesions
- Tx
- Corticosteroids mouthrinses
Bullous Pemphigoid
Cause
App
Vs MMP
Tx
- Antibodies against hemidesmosome
- Most common autoimm blistering condition
- App
- Skin lesions always present, thick bullae/ulcers
- Oral lesions uncommon- bullae rupture sooner than skin, large shallow ulcers distinct margins
- Chronic desquamative gingivitis
- Compared to MMP
- BP more limited and doesnt scar
- Tx corticosteroids

Systemic Lupus
Cause
App
Dist
Assoc
Symptoms
- Severe multisystem disease
- Inc activity of B cells and abnormal T cells function
- App
- Butterfly rash, worsens in sun
- Oral lesion uncommon
- Lichenoid or non-specific
- Chronic desquamative gingivitis
- Dist
- Palate, buccal mucosa, gingiva
- Assoc
- Kidney failure, cardiac involvement
- Symptoms
- fever weight loss arthritis fatigue malaise
Chronic Cutaneous Lupus
Aka
Location
Symptoms
App

- Aka discoid lupus erythematosis
- Confined to skin and oral cavity
- Few or systemic signs/symptoms
- App
- Scaly erthematous patches
- Frequent in sun exposed skin
- Scarring and pigmentation
Subacute Cutaneous Lupus
Clinical manifestations
Type of lesions
Freq in
Symptoms
Assoc w/

- Clinical manifestations intermediate btw SLE and CCLE
- Cutaneous lesions
- Freq in sun exposed
- No scarring or Pigmentation
- Renal changes absent
- Arthritis and mucoskeletal
Chronic Desquamative Gingivitis
App
Found in 4 diseases

- Diffuse slougjing of gingiva
- Erosive lichen planus
- Pemphigus
- Pemphigoid (MM or bullous)
- Lupus


