Superficial lesions Flashcards
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To complete general lump exam
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- examine draining lymph nodes
- assess neurovasc
- look for similar lumps
- perform general exam as necessary
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What is a lipoma?
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Benign tumour of mature fat cells
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Do lipomas undergo malignant change?
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No, or very rarely.
Liposarcomas arise de novo
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How to treat a lipoma?
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- watch and wait
- remove if patient choice, painful, bad cosmesis.
- need to remove capsule or recurs?
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Lipomas variants
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- angiolipomas: prominent vasc component
- hibernomas: brown fat cells
- Bannayan-Zonana syndrome: multiple lipomas, macrocephaly, haemangiomas
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Dercum’s disease
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aka Adiposis dolorosa: multiple painful lipomas associated with peripheral neuropathy
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Liposarcoma classficiation
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1 - well-differentiated
2 - myxoid and round cell (poor-dif)
3 - pleomorphic
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What are the complications of a sebaceous cyst?
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- infection
- ulceration
- calcification (trichilemmal cyst)
- sebaceous horn formation
- malignant change
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Sebaceous cyst treatment
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- watch and wait if small, asymptomatic
- elliptical skin excision including capsule to prevent recurrence
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Different histological subtypes of sebaceous cyst?
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- Epidermal: from infundibular portion of hair follicles
- Trichilemmal: from hair follicle epithelium, more common on scalp
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Gardner’s syndrome
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- multiple epidermal cysts
- adenomatous polyposis of colon
- multiple skull osteomata
- desmoid tumours
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What is a ganglion?
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Cystic swelling related to a synovial lined cavity (joint or tendon sheath).
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Ganglion differential
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- bursae
- cystic protrusions from arthritic joints
- benign giant cell tumours of flexor sheath
- rarely, malignant e.g. synovial sarcoma
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Ganglion treatment
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- watch and wait
- aspiration + 3 weeks immobilisation
- complete excision including neck at origin
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Complications of surgical ganglion treatment
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- wound complications e.g. scar, haematoma, infection
- recurrence
- damage to adjacent neurovascular structures
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Neck triangle borders
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- anterior: anterior border of sternocleidomastoid, midline, ramus of mandible
- posterior: anterior border of trapezius, clavicle, posterior border of sternocleidomastoid
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Midline neck lumps DDx
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- Solid: thyroid swelling
- Cystic: thyroglossal cyst
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Anterior triangle lump DDx
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- solid: lymphadenopathy or carotid chemodectoma
- cystic: branchial cyst, cold abscess (TB)
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Posterior triangle lump DDx
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- solid: lymphadenopathy
- cystic: pharyngeal pouch or cystic hygroma
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What is a sternomastoid tumour?
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an ischaemic contracture of a segment of muscle seen in first 1-2 weeks of life following complicated birth. Usually resolves over 4-6 months
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How to complete cervical lymph node exam
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- examine face and scalp for primary infection or neoplasia
- full ENT exam + formal referal
- examine abdo for hepatosplenomegaly
- examine breasts and chest
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Cervical lymphadenopathy questions
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- lump history
- night sweats, appetite, weight
- local ENT symptoms
- systemic disease
- social hx, foreign travel, TB
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Cervical lymphadenopathy causes
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L - lymphoma, leukaemia
I - infection (tonsillitis, TB, CMV, EBV, HIV)
S - sarcoidosis
T - tumours, primary + secondary
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Cervical lymphadenopathy investigations
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Bloods - FBC, ESR, TFTs, ACE, monospot/paul-bunnell
Radiological - USS, CT, MRI
Histological - FNAC, excision biopsy
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Cervical lymphadenopathy FNAC results
- if SCC or TB, don't perform excision biopsy
| - if adenocarcinoma, lymphoma or other infection/inflammatory cause, do excision biopsy
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What is the arterial supply to thyroid gland?
- superior thyroid artery from external carotid
- inferior thyroid artery from thyrocervical trunk from subclavian artery
- these two anastamose behind the thyroid gland
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Causes of a solitary thyroid nodule
- prominent nodule in multinodular goitre
- cyst
- adenoma
- cardinoma/lymphoma
- thyroiditis
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What do you know about solitary thyroid nodules?
- F:M = 4:1
- commonest 40s-50s
- 10% malignant in middle-aged
- 50% malignant in young and elderly
- FNAC most important investigation
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Investigation of solitary thyroid nodule
Triple assessment
- clinical hx and exam
- USS
- FNAC
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What do you know about thyroid adenomas?
- most follicular adenomas
- 2-4cm encapsulated
- indistinguishable from carcinomas on FNAC
- need surgical excision to confirm diagnosis
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Thyroid malignancy
- Papillary - 70%, commonest in young, lymphatic spread
- Follicular - 15%, mean age 50, haematological spread
- Medullary - 8%, parafollicular C cells, calcitonin, 10% MEN2a/b
- Anaplastic - 5%, elderly
- Lymphoma - 2%
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Multiple endocrine neoplasia types
All Autosomal dominant
MEN 1 - pancreatic islet cell tumour, pituitary adenoma, primary hyperparathyroidism
MEN 2a - phaeo, medullary thyroid Ca, primary hyperparathyroidism
MEN 2b - phaeo, medullary thyroid Ca
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Feature of multinodular goitre
- progression from smooth goitre to nodular
- middle-aged women
- family history
- malignant change in 5%
- mild hyperthyroidism (Plummer's syndrome) or euthryoid
- no eye signs
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MNG management
- often no intervention
- investigate prominent nodule or if malignancy features
- TFTs, USS + FNAC, CX
- Remove goitrogens (cabbage)
- Low dose thyroxine causes regression in 50-70%
- If thyrotoxic, treat as Graves
- radioiodine if unfit for surgery
- bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy
- total thyroidectomy + thyroxine reduces maligancy risk (best option)
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Indications for MNG surgery
- Mechanical - obstructive symptoms
- Malignancy
- Medical treatment failure - thyrotoxic
- Mediastinal extension - unable to FNAC or monitor clinically
- Marred beauty - cosmetic
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Difference between TMNG and Graves'
TMNG - older, nodular, no eye signs, AF in 40%, no AI association
Graves' - younger, diffuse, eyes signs, AF uncommon, associated AI diseases
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Causes of diffusely enlarged thyroid gland
- simple colloid goitre
- Graves' disease
- thyroiditis (Hashimoto's, de Quervain's, Riedel's)
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What do you know about simple colloid goitres?
- commonest thyroid abnormality
- physiological hyperplasia or defection hormone production
- Causes: iodine deficiency, puberty, pregnancy, goitrogens, drugs (lithium, amiodarone), congenital defects (rare)
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Graves' treatment
- Medical: anti-thyroid drugs (carbimazole, propythiouracil) inhibit thyroid peroxidase, beta-blockers (propanolol) provide symptomatic relief
- Radioiodine: Absolute CI = pregnancy, lactation. Risks = early hyperthyroidism, late hypothyroidism, late hyperparathyroidism
- Surgery: Bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy or total. Good for relapse, pregnant patients, those wanting to get pregnant in next 4 years, large goitres
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Thyroidectomy complications
General or specific
- Immediate: haemorrhage + airway obstruction, hoarseness (recurrent laryngeal nerve damage), hyperthyroidism (thyroid storm)
- Early: infection, hypoparathryoidism leading to hypocalcaemia
- Late: Recurrence, hypothyroidism, hypertrophic scaring
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Pathology of thyroid eye disease
- retroorbital inflammation and lymphocyctic infiltration
| - sympathetic overstimulation and restrictive myopathy of levator palebrae superioris = lid lag
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What types of wound are prone to hypertrophic and keloid scar formation?
Wounds associated with:
- infection
- trauma
- burns
- tension
- flexor surfaces, skin creases = hypertrophic
- earlobes, chin, neck, shoulder, chest = keloid
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Clinical course of hypertrophoc and keloid scars
Hypertrophic appear soon after injury, usually regress spontaneously.
Keloid scars appear months after injury and continue to grow
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How to you treat hypertrophic and keloid scars?
- mechanical pressure with topical silicone gel sheets
- surgical revision with closure aiming to avoid tension
- intralesional steroid and local anaesthetic injection
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SCC differential
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Benign skin lesions
- keratoacanthoma
- infected seborrhoeic wart
- solar keratosis
- pyogenic granuloma
Malignant skin lesions
- BCC
- Malignant melanoma (amelanotic)
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Predisposing factors for SCC
Congenital: Xeroderma pigmentosum
Acquired
- environmental: sunlight, ionizing radiation, arsenic
- pre-existing skin lesions: solar keratosis, Bowen's disease
- infections: viral warts (HPV 5+8)
- immunosuppression: post-transplant, HIV
- chronic cutaneous ulceration: burns, venous ulcers (Marjolin's ulcer)
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SCC treatment
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Primary lesion
- Excision 1 cm margin
- Moh's excision for eyelids, ears, nasolabial folds etc
- Radiotherapy if unresectable
Nodal spread
- Surgical block dissection
- Radiotherapy
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SCC pathology
- arise from epidermal cells
- full thickness epidermal atypia
- extend in all directions into deep dermis and subcut fat
- well, mod or poorly differentiated
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Features of a pigmented skin lesion suspicious of malignancy
- loss of normal surface markings around lesion
- ulceration
- bleeding
- variation of colour
- halo of brown pigment
- satellite nodules
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Malignant melanoma differential
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Benign
- pigmented naevus aka mole
- freckles
- lentigo
- pigmented seborrhoeic keratoses
- dermatofibromas
- thrombosed haemangiomatas
Malignant
- pigmented BCC
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Types of malignant melanoma
- Superficial spreading (70%): legs and back
- Nodular (15-30%): trunk
- Lentigo maligna: face or back of hands
- Acral lentiginous: hairless skin e.g. subungual, palms + soles
- Rare: amelanotic, intracranial, retinal
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Predisposing factors of malignant melanoma
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Congential
- xeroderma pigmentosum
- dysplastic naevus syndrome
- large congenital naevi
- family history
Acquired
- sunlight
- pre-existing skin lesions: lentigo maligna, >20 naevi
- previous melanoma
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Malignant melanoma staging
- Clark's levels of invasion
- Breslow's thickeness
- Beahrs and Myers (combination)
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Malignant melanoma treatment
- Surgery: wide local excision, margin depends on size of main lesion.
- Nodal spread: confirm with FNAC/lymph node biopsy, if palpable - therapeutic block dissection
- Palliation/adjuvants: immunotherapy
- PREVENTION: sun exposure avoidance
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BCC differential
Benign
- keratoacanthoma
Malignant
- SCC
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Predisposing factors for BCC
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Congenital
- xeroderma pigmentosum
- Gorlin's syndrome
Acquired
- sunlight
- carcinogens: cigarettes, arsenic
- previous radiotherapy
- pre-existing skin lesion: naevus sebaceous
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BCC treatment
- Nodular tumour, excision with 0.5 cm margin
- Flat tumour, wider margin
- Moh's excision if near delicate structures
- Radiotherapy
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Classification of pressure sores
- Stage 1: non-blanching erythema
- Stage 2: partial-thickness skin loss
- Stage 3: full-thickness skin loss, fat at base
- Stage 4: extensive soft tissue loss through deep fascia, often muscle necrosis
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Commonest signs for pressure sores
Any bony prominence
- sacrum
- greater trochanter
- heel
- lateral malleolus
- ischial tuberosity
- occiput
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Conditions with increase risk of pressure sores
Immobility and prolonged bed-rest most important factors
- cardiorespiratory disease
- trauma
- neurological disease
- bone and joint disease
- prolonged operative procedures
Impaired wound healing
- metabolic: DM, vit C + zinc deficiencies
- drugs: steroid, chemo, radio
- underlying disease: PVD, CRF, jaundice, malignacy, infection
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Pressure sore treatment
- Prophylaxis: skin inspection, turning immobile pts, massage, toileting, special mattress + cushions
- Non-surgical: optimize tissue perfusion + oxygenation, treat infection, good nutrition (vit C, zinc, multivits)
- Surgical: debridement + reconstruction with fascia + muscle containing flaps
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What is a skin graft?
- Transfer of skin from donor sign to recipient site without a blood supply - this is acquired from healthy recipient bed
- Full or partial thickness
- Donor site regenerates from adnexal skin elements
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What tissues do skin grafts not take on?
- unhealthy, necrotic, infected tissue
- irradiated tissue
- cortical bone without periosteum
- tendon without peritendon
- cartilage without perichondrium
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How do you harvest a skin graft?
- hand-held skin graft knive
- electric or gas-powered dermatomes
- donor site usually easily concealed e.g. inner thigh, buttock, inner arm
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What is a skin flap?
Tissue or tissues transfered from one site to another while maintaining a continuous blood supply through a vascular pedicle
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Classification of skin flaps
- Site: local or distal (free flap)
- Contents
- Random or axial (based on a named artery or vein)
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Indications for flap reconstruction
- when skin grafts will not take
- to reconstruct like-for-like to promote optimal structure, function and cosmesis
- when blood supply has to be imported to areas of doubtful viability e.g. pressure sores, complex trauma
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What is the reconstruction ladder?
- Secondary intention
- Primary closure
- Delayed primary closure
- Split thickness graft
- Full thickness skin graft
- Tissue expansion
- Random flap
- Axial flap
- Free flap
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Ptosis causes
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Unilateral
- 3rd nerve palsy
- Horner's syndrome
- Syphilis
Bilateral
- Congenital
- Myopathies: MG, myotonic dystrophy
- Syphillis
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Ptosis surgical treatment
Blepharoplasty - excess eyelid skin and fat removed
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Facial nerve palsy causes
- Intracranial: vascular, tumour, infection (meningitis)
- Intratemporal: infection (otitis media, Ramsay Hunt), idiopathic (Bell's), trauma (surgical, #), tumour
- Extratemporal: tumour (parotid gland), trauma (surgical, accidental)
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Branches of facial nerve
Motor
- nerve to stapedius
- nerve to posterior belly of digastric
- temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular, cervical
Secretomotor:
- via greater superficial pertrosal nerve to lacrimal, nasal and palatine glands
Taste (anterior 2/3)
- via chorda tympani
Sensory
- anterior wall of external auditory meatus
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Differential of unilateral swelling of parotid gland
- neoplasia: benign (pleomorphic adenoma), malignant
- stones
- infection/inflammation: mumps, sialadenitis, HIV
- autoimmune: sjogrens
- infiltration: sarcoidosis
- lymph node enlargement
- neural: facial nerve neuroma
- vascular: temporal artery aneurysm
- systemic disease: ALD, DM, pancreatitis, acromegaly, malnutrition
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Parotid gland swelling features suspicious of malignancy
- history: rapid growth, pain
- hyperaemic hot skin
- hard consistency
- fixed to skin and muscle
- irregular surface or ill-defined edge
- facial nerve involvement
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What is Sjogrens syndrome
Two of more of:
- keratoconjuctivitis sicca (dry eyes)
- xerostomia (dry mouth)
- associated CTD (RA, scleroderma, SLE, PM, PAN)
Primary if no associated CTD
40x increased risk of developing lymphoma
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Sjogrens syndrome investigations and treatment
- Antibodies: RhF, anti-salivary, anti-Ro, anti-La
- Schirmer's test
- Slit-lamp
- Lip biopsy
Treatment
- artifical tears and saliva
- systemic steroids
- careful follow-up (lymphoma)
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Complications of parotidectomy
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Immediate
- facial nerve transection
- reactionary haemorrhage
Early
- wound infection
- temporary facial weakness
- salivary fistula
- division of greater auricular nerve = numb pinna
Late
- wound dimple
- Frey's syndrome = increased facial sweating when eating due to reinnervation of divided sympathetic nerves to facial skin by fibres of secretomotor branch
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What is a keratoacanthoma?
Benign overgrowth of hair follicle cells producing central plug of keratin.
Rapidly forms in 6 weeks, regresses in 6 weeks.
Looks like SCC
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Keratoacanthoma treatment
- leave alone is asympotmatic
| - complete excision + histology (particularly in elderly)
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What is a neurofibroma?
Benign tumour derived from peripheral nerve elements
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What is neurofibromatosis?
AD cause of multiple neurofibromas with other dermatological manifestations (6 cafe-au-lait spots)
- type 1 (von Recklinghausen's disease) classical cutaneous signs
- Type 2 (MISME syndrome: multiple inherited schwannomas, meningiomas and ependymomas)
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Neurofibromata complications
- pressure effects: spinal cord or nerve root compression
- deafness: involvement of CN VIII
- sarcomatous transformation: 5-13% in type I
- intra-abdominal effects: obstruction, chronic GI bleeds
- skeletal change: kyphoscholiosis, cystic change, pseudoarthrosis
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Treatment for a single neurofibroma
- leave alone if asympotmatic
- excision if malignant growth suspected
- local regrowth is common (unable to detach from underlying nerve)
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What is a papilloma
Overgrowth of all layers of skin with a central vascular core. Increasingly common with age
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Papilloma treatment
Excise with sharp scissors, control bleeding from central vascular core with single stitch or diathermy
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What is a pyogenic granuloma?
Rapidly growing capillary haemangioma, neither pyogenic nor a granuloma!
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Pygogenic granuloma treatment?
Unlikely to regress spontaneously unless arose in pregnancy.
| Currettage with diathermy of base or complete excision biopsy
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What is a seborrhoeic keratosis?
Benign overgrowth of basal cell layer of epidermis. Histologically characterised by:
- hyperkeratosis
- acanthosis
- hyperplasia of variably pigmented basaloid cells
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Seborrhoeic keratosis treatment?
- leave alone if patient wishes
| - shave or cauterise off (lies above level of surrounding normal epidermis)
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What is a solar/actinic keratosis?
SCC in situ. Histologically:
- hyperkeratosis
- focal parakeratosis
- irregular acanthosis
- basal layer atypia only (all layers = SCC)
25% progress to invasive SCC if untreated
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Solar/actinic keratosis treatment
- cryotherapy
- topical 5-flurouracil
- photodynamic therapy
- curretage of affected skin
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Causes of clubbing
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Commonest is idiopathic
Gastrointestinal
- Cirrhosis: esp PBC
- IBD: esp Crohns
- Malabsorption: coeliac
- GI lymphoma
Respiratory
- Bronchial carcinoma: SCC
- Chronic supperative lung disease: abscess, bronchiectasis, CF, empyema
- Fibrosing alveolitis
- Mesothelioma
Caridac
- Cyanotic congenital heart disease
- Infective endocarditis
- Atrial myxoma
Rare causes
- Familial
- Graves
- Axillary artery aneurysm, brachial AV malformation = unilateral
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What is a branchial cyst and how is it diagnosed?
Fusion failure of embryonic second and third branchial arches
- clinical examination
- FNAC shows opalescent fluid containing cholesterol crystal or pus
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Branchial cyst treatment
- surgically excised whole if possible
- injecting dye aids total excision and reduces recurrence
- treat complicating infections
Complications: recurrence + chronic, discharging sinus formation
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Definition of cyst, sinus and fistula
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Cyst = abnormal epithelial lined sac containing gas, fluid, or semisolid material
Sinus = blind-ending tract typically lined by epithelial or granulation tissue, open onto an epithelial surface
Fistula = abnormal communication between two epithelial (or endothelial e.g. AV fistula) surfaces
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