Integumentary Flashcards
(30 cards)
risk for skin cancer
male gender, history of melanoma, over 50 years of age, change to moles, over 50 moles, red or light hair, light eyes, light skin, actinic lentigenes, UV exposure, blistering sun burns in childhood, immunosuppression, family history
D stands for diameter what is the size of lesions
lesions greater than 6 mm, about the size off a pencil eraser
what is the order of examination for any system
inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion
alopecia
patchy loss of hair
lateral loss of eyebrows may indicate
hypothyroidism
hirsuitism
excessive hair on women caused yb acromegaly, hypothyroidm, steroids, phenytoin, ovarian, adrenal
fine, oily, silky skin indicates
hyperthrydoism
dry, course, thinning skin indicates
hypothyroidism
red skin caused by
polycythemia, CO poisoning, drug reaction, exanthem, increased blood flow
skin mobility
ease of lifting upwards
skin mobility is decreased in
edema, scleroderm
turgor
rapidity of return (decreased in dehydration)
three general symptoms of bell’s palsy
smoothing out of forehead, eyebrow droop, and drooping of corner of the mouth
if a patient presents with an ear complaint which ear do you examine first
the asymptomatic ear
size of tuning fork used ro weber test
512 Hz
if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
rinne positive
if bone conduction is greater than air conduction then
rinne negative (conductiive hearing loss)
straightening the ear canal for adults
up back out
children straightening the ear canal
down back and out
alopecia
localized or diffuse hair loss classified as scarring or nonscarring
hypertrichosis
diffuse increase in body hair commonly associated with medications such as phenytoin, glucocorticoids, minoxidil and cyslosporin
infestations
parasitic infections commonly involving areas of hair growth
macule
flat skin lesion less than 10mm in diameter that varies from the surrounding skin by coolor but not by teture of thickness
patch
a macule that is larger than 10mm in size
