Bumps and Scales
I say 'Tree moss' .. you say?
The guses and the goids
ooo, pigment!!
I know everything!
100

Be careful using me as a treatment option for treating PRP, I may cause flares.

Phototherapy (test first)

100

Lichen sclerosus is commonly a/w this autoimmune condition in women


  • autoimmune thyroid disease
100

Dsg4 is mutated in


AR monilethrix

100

Nevus spilus can be a/w these conditions

  • Phakomatosis pigmentovascularis, phakomatosis pigmentokeratotica
100

Risk of GVHD greatest to least: Cord blood, Bone marrow, Peripheral blood


Peripheral blood > bone marrow > cord blood

200

You should screen for me in patients suspected with PR, especially if they have lesions on palms and soles.

Syphilis

200

This type of LS&A is usually symptomatic whereas this type is not.

  • Genital vs extragenital
200

I am a variant of PV endemic in Brazil. Who am I and what am I associated with (trigger)?


  • Fogo Selvagem; black flies (Simulium; saliva with antigens that trigger in susceptible patients)
200

Most common melanoma seen in darkly pigmented races


  • Acral lentiginous melanoma
200

Name the factors used to grade GVHD


  • Skin involvement
  • Volume of diarrhea or Ileus development
  • Bilirubin level
300

I can happen on susceptible people using benzalkonium based laundry detergent.

Granular parakeratosis

300

Can use high potent CS for a longer duration in case of LS&A in both adults and children. 

Hell, yeah! Or Blasphemy!! ?

Hell, yeah!

300

Part of Pemphigus family with autoantibodies to nearly all components of desmosome


  • Paraneoplastic Pemphigus.
300

Common mutations in spitz nevus


  • HRAS  (no BRAF)
300

Main differential you might come across on consults when they call you thinking it might be GVHD

  • Engraftment syndrome ( no diarrhea, uncommon elevated bili, +fever unlike GVHD)


400

Most common cause of erythroderma in health patients? In patients with HIV?

  • Psoriasis; Drug reactions (allopurinol, sulfa, antiepileptics, HAART, and others)
400

I am involved in 75% of all LP but only 10% of patients with me will develop into cutaneous LP.

Oral LP

400

Primary antigen in bullous pemphigoid? Secondary, due to epitope spreading?


  • BP180 (BPAG2) XVII collagen, NC16A domain
  • BP230 (BPAG1), Plakin family
500

You should be worried about me developing in a patient with idiopathic erythroderma, so watch out!

CTCL

500

Goid overflow-

Which pemphigoid variant also has BP180 (BPAG2) XVII collagen, NC16A domain as its main antigenic target?


  • Pemphigoid gestationis
500

What other way can you diagnostically differentiate between BP and EBA? What are the patterns?


  • Salt-split skin DIF: Roof = BP; Floor = EBA