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Disorders of Pigmentations - Hypopigmentation and Hyperpigmentation - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

HYPOPIGMENTATION
Diffuse Congenital - Generalized hypopigmentation of
- Differential Diagnosis ... of hair, eyes, skin ... Tanning • Adverse cutaneous ... • Addison's disease ... #causes
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
vasculitis) • Cutaneous ... response to local skin ... test (this is a skin ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology ... signs #symptoms #rheumatology
Cutaneous larva migrans skin Rash
25 F recent Caribbean vacation, walked barefoot on sand and now with
with creepy rash. diagnosis ... self-limited Diagnosis ... rates of recurrent disease ... University Infectious Diseases ... #clinical #photo
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
 •
- Differential Diagnosis ... tract, and often causes ... aphthous ulcers, cutaneous ... strong sign of cutaneous ... #rheumatology #
Pigmented Purpuric Dermatoses (PPD) - Capillaritis

Group of chronic, benign, cutaneous eruptions characterized by the presence of
chronic, benign, cutaneous ... extremities Schamberg Disease ... - This iron causes ... #differential #diagnosis ... #dermatology
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) Overview

Increased Clotting and Consumption of Clotting Factors

Findings:
 • Bleeding
 • Recent history
involvement (2%) Cutaneous ... both • Acral cyanosis ... • Severe Liver Disease ... #Coagulation #diagnosis ... #management #hematology
Primary Dermatological Lesions
Primary lesions are physical changes in the skin considered to be caused directly by
considered to be caused ... directly by the disease ... specific to a single disease ... nettle sting #Diagnosis ... #Dermatology #Skin
Sweet Syndrome

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweets Syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by fever and inflamed
with systemic disease ... Most common extra cutaneous ... Causes: - Idiopathic ... , breast CA - Hematologic ... Sweet #Syndrome #diagnosis
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
- Differential Diagnosis ... Vasculitis Differential Diagnosis ... Strong sign of cutaneous ... tract, and often causes ... #Rheumatology
ANTI-MDA5 DERMATOMYOSITIS

Cutaneous manifestations:
• Periorbital heliotrope (blue-purple) rash with edema
• Erythematous rash on the face, or the
DERMATOMYOSITIS Cutaneous ... ulcerations • Skin ... severity of the disease ... • Skin vasculopathies ... #dermatology #diagnosis