Tumour terminology

Question 1

What is a macule?

Answer 1

Flat lesion, No elevation or depression

change in colour.

Question 2

What is a papule?

Answer 2

Raised so it is palpable lesion, less than 5 mm in diameter

Question 3

What is a nodule?

Answer 3

Question 4

What is a plaque?

Answer 4

Flat topped lesion

Question 5

What is a wheal?

Answer 5

Firm oedematous plaque/papule. Pruritic. Dermal oedema

Question 6

What is a vesicle?

Answer 6

Fluid collection smaller than 5 mm

Question 7

What is a bulla?

Answer 7

Fluid collection larger than 5mm

Question 8

What is a pustule?

Answer 8

Question 9

What is scale?

Answer 9

Question 10

What is a crust?

Answer 10

Dried serum, blood. Pustule, vesicle, bulla

Question 11

What is an erosion?

Answer 11

Partial focal loss of epidermis

Heals without scarring

Question 12

What is an ulcer?

Answer 12

Question 13

What is this?

Answer 13

Atrophy

Question 14

What is this?

Answer 14

Lichenification

Question 15

What is this?

Answer 15

Excoriations

Question 16

What is this?

Answer 16

Fissure

Vertical loss of epidermis and dermis with sharply defined walls

Crack in the skin

Question 17

What is this?

Answer 17

Telangiectasia

Small dilated superficial blood vessels that blanch with pressure

Question 18

What is this?

Answer 18

Burrow

Channel in the superficial epidermis

Typically on wrist, fingerwebs

Secondary to scabies

Question 19

What is this?

Answer 19

Target lesion

Question 20

What is this?

Answer 20

Purpura

Question 21

What is this?

Answer 21

Alopecia

Question 22

What is this?

Answer 22

Koebnerization

Question 23

What is this?

Answer 23

Erythroderma

Question 24

How to describe a rash? Describe the above

Answer 24

SCAM

Site

On this lady’s lower legs are…

Size &Shape

..small circular

Colour

…purpuric

Associated symptoms

…painful, necrotic

Margin & Morphology

Well demarcated papules and plaques

Question 25

Describe this skin lesion

Answer 25

**_S_**ite On this lady’s right cheek **_S_**ize &Shape Oval large **_C_**olour pigmented, grey brown **_A_**ssociated symptoms Mention if itchy/painful **_M_**argin & Morphology Well demarcated plaque

Question 26

What is this?

Answer 26

Basal cell carcinoma

Question 27

What is this?

Answer 27

Melanoma

Question 28

How to measure melanoma?

Answer 28

**MM – Breslow thickness** ## Footnote Measured from the granular layer of the epidermis to the base of the tumour Reliable indicator of prognosis

Question 29

What is this?

Answer 29

Squamous cell carcioma

Question 30

Difference between BCC, SCC, melanoma (rate of growth, clinical features, subtypes, treatment, metastatic potential)

Answer 30