A condensed rapid review pass over the highest yield dermatology and musculoskeletal facts for final week review.
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- What skin finding is the Auspitz sign?
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Pinpoint bleeding when a psoriatic scale is scraped off- What is the Koebner phenomenon?
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New psoriatic lesions forming at sites of skin trauma- Is the Nikolsky sign positive or negative in pemphigus vulgaris?
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Positive- Is the Nikolsky sign positive or negative in bullous pemphigoid?
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Negative- Pemphigus vulgaris (autoantibody target)
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Desmoglein 3- Bullous pemphigoid (autoantibody target)
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BP180 (a hemidesmosome protein)- At what skin layer does pemphigus vulgaris form its blister?
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Intraepidermal, just above the basal layer (suprabasal)- At what skin layer does bullous pemphigoid form its blister?
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Subepidermal, at the dermal-epidermal junction- What classic lesion shape is seen in erythema multiforme?
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Target-shaped (bullseye) lesions- Stevens-Johnson syndrome involves what percentage of body surface area?
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Less than 10 percent- Toxic epidermal necrolysis involves what percentage of body surface area?
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More than 30 percent- ____ is the most common type of skin cancer overall.
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Basal cell carcinoma- What classic appearance does basal cell carcinoma have?
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A pearly papule with telangiectasias- What precancerous lesion often precedes squamous cell carcinoma of the skin?
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Actinic keratosis- In the ABCDE mnemonic for melanoma, E stands for ____.
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Evolution or change over time
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