Skin Flashcards

(53 cards)

1
Q
  • most common skin cancer

- waxy, pearly, indurated, rodent ulcer

A

Basal cell

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  • skin cancer

- irregular, flaky (actinic keratosis)

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Sqauamous cell

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  • skin cancer
  • pigmented
  • multicolor
  • MOST invasive skin cancer
A

Melanoma

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Precancerous lesions

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Actinic keratosis - yellow

Leukoplakia - white

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Folliculitis

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Irritated hair follicles (groin, neck)

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Psoriasis

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  • silver scales (most significant feature is psoriatic plaques)
  • pitted nails
  • occurs on extensors
  • 15% joint involvement
  • hyperuricemia
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Eczema

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  • contact dermatitis
  • remove agent
  • flexors
  • “hold things with your flexors, therefore flexors get contact dermatitis”
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8
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3 diseases that destroy joints

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OA- ones who abuse
RA- hereditary; systemic
Psoriatic - aggressive and mean

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Pediculosis

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  • lice (nits)

- special shampoo is used; then used again one week later to kill nits

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Scabies

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  • love warm damp, hairy spots

- ‘furrow and burrow in with all their mites”

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Tinea capitis

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  • ringworm

- “fungus among us”

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Lyme disease

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Spirochete carried by ticks

Bite => erythema migrans => central clearing => bull’s eye for 2-3 weeks

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Erysipelas

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  • purple
  • strep
  • shiny red vesicles
  • fever
  • patches
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Pityriasis Rosea

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“Such a pity they have a herald patch”

  • herald patch
  • 10-30 years old
  • fatigued
  • post viral infection
  • comes on fast
  • recedes slowly
  • on the torso => branches out into a Christmas tree
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Seborrheic Dermatitis

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  • dandruff on steroids
  • scaly
  • oily
  • itchy
  • erythema
  • painful (skinalgia)
  • binds hair (cradle cap)
  • blepharitis
  • tx: shampoo (sulfur and aspirin), steroid cream
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Dermatomyositis

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Rash (heliotrope [sun sensitive])

Eyelids and knuckles

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SLE

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  • butterfly rash (malar) heliotrope [sun sensitive]

- eyelids are preserved

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18
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Acne

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Vulgaris - young; puberty

Rosacea - Nosey Rosey (bulbous unilateral nose growth); rhinoplasty

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Impetigo

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  • staph and strep
  • primary (vesicle and bulla)
  • secondary: crusty
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20
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Impetigo vs B2 riboflavin problems

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Impetigo: erupts and oozes, crusty/honeycomb, very contagious

B2 riboflavin problem: cheilosis; not contagious

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21
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Tinea Versicolor

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  • subcutaneous fungus causing white patches

- shows up in the summer

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Vitiligo

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Patchy absence of melanin

- 20’s and 30’s

23
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Lichenification

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  • thickened epidermis induced by scratching (washboard)

- precancerous

24
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Epidermal nevus

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  • group of hamartomas
  • brown
  • flat
  • warty
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Hemangioma
- red elevated birth mark
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Mongolian
Flat, dark region
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Cafe au lait
- fibrous dysplasia (coast of Maine) (affects a single bone) | - neurofibromatosis (coast of California)(von recklinghouse disease) (growing; significant problem)
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Purple list
Kapossi sarcoma - vessel cancer; purple black appearance; opportunistic cancer Erysipelas - strep; so red they look purple ``` Lichen planus — oral: white, glossitis — nail: ridges — purple skin: wrist, ankles — purple papules ```
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Stomatitis
Mouth lesions
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Fordyce spot
Yellow | - mouth lesion
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Aphthous stomatitis
Yellow center, red halo | Canker sore/ cold sore
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Acrodynia
Mercury poisoning - children | - mouth lesion
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Mechanical mouth lesions
- dentures, mouth appliances
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Glossitis
Swollen large tongue | Often vitamin B deficiency
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Leukoplakia
White, cannot peel it off
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Hairy leukoplakia
- white, can peel it off (sort of)
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Thrush
White (can peel off)
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Diphtheria
Pseudo membrane in throat | Exotoxin
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Scarlet fever
Beefy red tongue
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Herpes
Vesicles, prodrome (itchy)
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Koplik
White spots on erythematous base
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Cleft palate
- anomaly of soft, hard, or both palates
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-onychia
Inflammation of nail folds
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Clubbing nails
- COPD, cancer, RA | —all three related to hypoxia
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Onychocryptosis
Ingrown toenails
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Pitted nails
Psoriasis | — “silver scales, pitted nails, and it occurs on extensors....PSORIASIS”
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Transverse grooves on nails
- Beaux lines | - indicative of systemic illness
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Pachyonychia
Thickened nail beds
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Paronychia and onychia
Inflammation around nail bed
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Leukonychia
White nail bed, red mood | - “switching of moon”
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Splinter hemorrhages
SBE (subacute bacterial endocarditis)[strep infection] | —painful Osler’s nodes on tips of digits
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Koilonychia
- “coil grows up” | - iron deficiency and fungus (lifting of the nail bed)
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Onychomycosis
Fungal infection | Common in geriatrics