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Dermatology for the written exam

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Dermatology

A 54 year old man with type 2 diabetes has a well-defined, finely scaly, brown-red patch in both groins and macerated fourth toe webs. There are no satellite pustules. Skin scrapings show no fungal elements. He takes metformin only. Which test would best confirm the likely diagnosis?

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7 courses, each a set of lessons with a quiz after them. The bar shows how many questions each has. Open a course to see its lesson outline.

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17 figures sit in the Dermatology lessons: ECGs, diagrams, films and clinical images, each with what to look for. Here are 4. Tap one to enlarge it.

A bald scalp seen from the side and behind: sun-damaged skin with many small, ill-defined pink, rough, scaly patches scattered across the crown. — Multiple actinic keratoses across a balding scalp: a field of sun damage, where field therapy such as 5-fluorouracil cream treats lesions that cannot yet be seen as well as those that can. Image: Future FamDoc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized. Original. Tap the image to zoom.

From the lesson “Keratinocyte Cancers, Transplant Skin Cancer and Prevention” in Dermatological Principles & Skin Cancer

The inner wrist beside a ruler marked in millimetres: a round red-purple lesion about 2 cm across, darker in the centre, with an irregular edge, and smaller red patches nearby. — A target lesion at the wrist, about 2 cm across, with indistinct zones, closer to an atypical target. Typical targets, as in erythema multiforme, have three concentric zones with a dusky or blistered centre and sit on acral skin; flat, atypical targets and dusky macules on the trunk point instead to SJS/TEN. Image: Kilbad, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized. Original. Tap the image to zoom.

From the lesson “SJS/TEN and Erythema Multiforme” in Cutaneous Drug Reactions & Dermatological Emergencies

Skin of the trunk: one larger oval pink scaly patch, marked by a black arrow, among many smaller oval pink patches whose long axes run in parallel lines. — Pityriasis rosea: the larger herald patch (arrow added by the uploader) and smaller oval scaly patches along the skin lines. A look-alike with palm or sole lesions, or without a herald patch, needs syphilis serology. Image: James Heilman, MD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized. Original. Tap the image to zoom.

From the lesson “Psoriasis, Lichen Planus and Pityriasis Rosea” in Inflammatory Dermatoses

Both lower legs from the front: multiple ill-defined red to violet raised nodules and plaques over the shins and around the knees. — Erythema nodosum: ill-defined red nodules on both shins, a septal panniculitis that heals without ulceration or scarring. Image: James Heilman, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized. Original. Tap the image to zoom.

From the lesson “Vasculitis, Vascular Occlusion and Neutrophilic Dermatoses” in Cutaneous Signs of Systemic Disease

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