Skin, Hair And Nails

Question 1

Symptoms Growth or Moles

Answer 1

History of previous melanoma

Age over 50

Absent dermatologist

Mole changing

Male gender

Question 2

Best way to assess jaundice

Answer 2

Check sclera

Question 3

It is caused by a diet high in carrots and other yellow vegetables or fruits

Answer 3

Carotenemia

Question 4

Depigmented macules appear on the face, hands, feet, extensor surfaces and other regions that lack melanin

Answer 4

Vitiligo

Question 5

Slapped cheeks of eryhema infectiosum

Answer 5

Erythema

Question 6

Violaceous patches over the eyelids in the collagen vascular diseases of dermatomyositis

Answer 6

Heliotrope

Question 7

Up to 1cm, filled with serious fluid.

Example is heroes simplex

Answer 7

Vesicle

Question 8

Filled with pus

Example acne and impetigo

Answer 8

Pustule

Question 9

Six or more spots with a diameter of greater than 1.5cm suggest

Answer 9

Neurofibromatosis

Question 10

A linear crack in the skin

Example is athlete’s foot

Answer 10

Fissure

Question 11

Term used for thickening of the epidermis

Answer 11

Lichen fixation

Question 12

How do you assess melignant melanoma

Answer 12

Asymmetry

Borders

Color

Diameter

Evolution

Question 13

Clearly demarcated round or oval patches of hair loss and no scaling

Answer 13

Alopecia areata

Question 14

Congenital heard disease, lung disease and cancer and inflammatory bowel disease and malignancies could lead to

Answer 14

Clubbing of fingers

Question 15

Painless separation of the whitened opaque nail plate from the pinker translucent nail bed

Answer 15

Onycholysis

Question 16

Curving transverse white bands that cross nails parallel to the lunula

Answer 16

Mee’s lines

Question 17

Transverse depression of the nail plates usually bilateral

Answer 17

Beau’s line