Diagnosis- Dermatology

Question 1

5 year old child with 3 day history of crusty rash around mouth

Answer 1

Impetigo

Question 2

8 year old child with 2 day history of fever and lethargy and 1 day history of rash

Answer 2

Scarlet fever

Question 3

18 month old with mouth ulcers and blisters on hands and feet

Answer 3

Hand, foot and mouth disease

Question 4

13 month old with fever and coryza, and macular rash spreading from face

Answer 4

Measles

Question 5

2 year old with fever and malaise, rash started on trunk two days ago

Answer 5

-Varicella zoster virus

Question 6

14 year old concerned by blister-like rash across lower back

Answer 6

Molluscum contagiosum

Question 7

19 year old student presents with a 1 week hx intensely itchy rash. His housemates have the same symptoms

1. Contact Dermatitis
2. Scabies
3. Atopic Eczema
4. Pompholyx

Answer 7

Answer: B - scabies

Question 8

52 year old lady presents with a 6 month hx of facial rash.

1. Cutaneous Lupus
2. Folliculitis
3. Acne vulgaris
4. Rosacea

Answer 8

4.Rosacea

Question 9

5 month old baby presents with a 6 week history of rash to the face and torso. It is scaly with multiple excoriations

1. Eczema herpeticum
2. Impetigo
3. Infantile eczema
4. Infantile acne

Answer 9

3.Infantile eczema

Question 10

22 year old hairdresser presents with an itchy rash to both hands. It improves when she goes on holiday.

1. Atopic eczema
2. Contact dermatitis
3. Psoriasis
4. Scabies

Answer 10

2.Contact dermatitis

Question 11

21 year old presents with the following rash. She recently had a sore throat treated with penicillin v.

1. Guttate Psoriasis
2. Nummular eczema
3. Pityriasis Rosea
4. Drug Eruption

Answer 11

1.Guttate Psoriasis

Question 12

78 year old presents with a longstanding rash to both lower legs. She has a history of varicose veins.

1. Chronic cellulitis
2. Atopic eczema
3. Venous eczema
4. Plaque Psoriasis

Answer 12

3.Venous eczema

Question 13

5 year old child with 3 day history of crusted facial rash

1. Perioral dermatitis
2. Facial eczema
3. Herpes simplex stomatitis
4. Impetigo

Answer 13

Question 14

31 year old presents with a 3 month hx of a thick, scaly rash over the scalp, buttocks and elbows.

1. Nummular eczema
2. Plaque psoriasis
3. Guttate psoriasis
4. Atopic eczema

Answer 14

2.Plaque psoriasis

Question 15

15 year old presents with a 3 month history of facial rash with pustules and papules.

1. Folliculitis
2. Impetigo
3. Acne rosacea
4. Acne vulgaris

Answer 15

4.Acne vulgaris

Question 16

66 year old diabetic presents with a 4 week history of worsening rash affecting both groins

1. Flexural eczema
2. Cellulitis
3. Flexural psoriasis
4. Tinea cruris

Answer 16

1.Tinea cruris

Question 17

16 year old presents with a longstanding hx of episodic itchy rash to the legs and arms

1. Nummular(discoid) eczema
2. Impetigo
3. Plaque psoriasis
4. Contact dermatitis

Answer 17

1. Nummular(discoid) eczema

Question 18

6 year old presents with a itchy rash affecting knee and elbow flexures

1. Eczema herpeticum
2. Flexural psoriasis
3. Impetigo
4. Atopic eczema

Answer 18

Answer: 4 – atopic eczema

Question 19

27 year old, well female, presents with a blotchy rash on the torso that comes on quickly and disappears with an antihistamine

1. Atopic eczema
2. Plaque psoriasis
3. Seborrhoeic dermatitis
4. Urticaria

Answer 19

Answer :4 - Urticaria

Question 20

32 year old presents with a non itchy rash to the torso following a recent holiday

1. Vitiligo
2. Tinea cruris
3. Scabies
4. Pityriasis versicolor

Answer 20

Answer :4 – Pityriasis versicolor ( Malassezia furfur- yeast)