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Skin, hair, nails pt.2 Flashcards

1
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What are secondary lesions?

A

Result from changes to a primary lesion (healing, scratch)

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What are these secondary lesions:

  1. Crust:
  2. Scale
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  1. Crust: Dried out vesicle/pustule
  2. Scale: flaky shedding skin
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What are these secondary lesions:

  1. Fissure
  2. Cheilosis
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  1. Fissure: Crack into dermis layer
  2. Cheilosis: Cracks at corner of mouth
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What are these secondary lesions:

  1. Erosion
  2. Ulcer
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  1. Erosion: Scooped depresion with no bleeding/scar
  2. Ulcer: Deep depresion; bleeding and scarring
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What are these secondary lesions:

  1. Excoriation
  2. Scar
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  1. Excoriation: Injury to skin by scratching
  2. Scar: normal skin repair
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What are these secondary skin lesions:

  1. Atrophic scar
  2. Lichenification:
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  1. Atrophic scar: thinning of epidermis (stretch mark)
  2. Lichenification: Thick skin caused by intense scratching
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Basal cell carcinoma description:

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Crusted lesion, with rolled border

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Squamous cell carcinoma description:

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Scaly, crusted lesion; grows faster than basal cell

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Malignant melanoma description:

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Dark, flat lesion with irregular borders

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What are expected skin characteristics of the aging adult?

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  1. Thin, dry skin
  2. Decreased subcutaneous tissue
  3. Slower wound healing
  4. Tenting
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What is this lesion:

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Polycylic

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12
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What is this lesion:

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Zosteriform

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13
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What is this lesion:

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Grouped

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14
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What is this lesion:

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Gyrate (notice spiral shape)

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15
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This type of lesion:

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Grouped

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16
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This type of lesion:

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Target lesion

17
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This type of lesion

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Confluent

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