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