Bronze Review Flashcards
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If a patient has a fever, chills, nausea, rash on forearms and ankles, palms, and soles of feet after hiking or camping in the mountains
-Rocky Mountain spotted fever
How do you treat RMSF
-Doxycyline
Middle age lady has been out in the yard, long grass, has target bulls eye rash what is the likely diagnosis
- lyme
- Erythema migrains
Middle-aged man notes a lesion on arm with irregular borders, different colors, with some black. What is the likely diagnosis?
-melanoma
Slivery white scales on an erythematous base that are pruritic
-psoriasis
Koebner phenomenon
when there is a trauma and a scab forms but psoriatic plaque forming over top
Auspitz sign
If you take a psoriatic plaque and it starts pinpoint bleeding
Mom brings in 5 year old child. Child is complaining of itching, mostly at night, interdigital burrowing happening
scabies
What tx or instructions do you give for scabies
- permethrain cream
- treat close contacts
- wash everything in VERY hot water
Atopic triad is
- allergies
- asthma
- atopic dermatitis
Mom brings in 10-year-old child, who is scratching his leg, notes a ring with central clearing that is pruritic
-tinea corporis
Actinic keratosis is the precursor
SCC
Where do you usually see actinic keratosis
- sun-exposed area
- face
- nose
- ears
Actinic keratosis is
-a dry, pink, raised lesion
How do you treat actinic keratosis
5-FU cream
Cryotherapy
What is the gold standard for diagnosing skin lesions
-punch biopsy
Black or tan lesion that looks pasted on the skin, waxy, wart-like
seborrheic keratosis
What is cellulitis
- A skin infection
- Reddened
If you have a patient with diabetes and cellulitis you are concerned for:
-osteomyelitis
PAD presentation
- intermittent claudication (feels better at rest, painful when walking)
- feels better when dangling
- shiny
- hairless
- no edema
What is the test for PAD
ABI
What is an ABI diagnostic level for PAD
<0.9
What is 1 thing PAD patients must do?
-STOP smoking
Venous insufficiency presentation
- edema
- discoloration: leg is red/purple/dark
- varicose veins