Dermatology conditions flashcards
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Twenty flashcards on common skin conditions: key lesions, signs, tests and first treatment.
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- Melanoma warning signs mnemonic?
- ABCDE: asymmetry, border, color, diameter over 6 mm, evolving.
- Most important prognostic factor in melanoma?
- Breslow depth, the tumor thickness.
- Silvery scaly plaques on elbows and knees?
- Psoriasis.
- Itchy rash in skin folds of a child with asthma history?
- Atopic dermatitis.
- Honey-colored crusts around the nose and mouth?
- Impetigo.
- Painful vesicles in one dermatome in an older adult?
- Herpes zoster (shingles).
- Shingles: start antivirals within how long?
- 72 hours of rash onset.
- Very itchy finger web burrows, worse at night?
- Scabies; permethrin 5% cream.
- Herald patch, then Christmas tree rash on the trunk?
- Pityriasis rosea.
- Target lesions after a herpes simplex outbreak?
- Erythema multiforme.
- Skin detachment over 30% of body surface after a new drug?
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis.
- Flaccid blisters with a positive Nikolsky sign?
- Pemphigus vulgaris.
- Tense blisters in an older adult, Nikolsky negative?
- Bullous pemphigoid.
- Rough scaly patch on sun-exposed skin that can turn malignant?
- Actinic keratosis, a precursor of squamous cell carcinoma.
- Waxy stuck-on brown papules in older adults?
- Seborrheic keratosis.
- Velvety dark skin on the neck: linked condition?
- Insulin resistance (acanthosis nigricans).
- Rule of nines: one whole arm in an adult?
- 9% of body surface area.
- Parkland formula for burns?
- 4 mL x kg x %TBSA of lactated Ringer in 24 hours, half in the first 8 hours.
- Pressure injury with full-thickness loss, fat visible, no bone?
- Stage 3.
- Warm spreading red skin with poorly defined borders?
- Cellulitis.