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Sarcoidosis - Skin Manifestations

This is a quick overview of some of the cutaneous manifestations of sarcoidosis.
Sarcoidosis - Skin ... is often on the differential ... Sarcoidosis #diagnosis #clinical ... #differential # ... treatment #photo
Diabetic Foot: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Polyol Pathway - Excess glucose enters Polyol pathway ->
Pathogenesis and clinical ... of peripheral nerve ... - Breakdown of skin ... , resulting in skin ... #DiabeticFoot #pathophysiology
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Still's Disease Clinical ... Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin ... fraction < 20% Differential ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Plts ↓50% (nadir
arterial thrombosis, skin ... ♀, ↑Age, ESRD Pathophysiology ... Diagnosis: • Clinical ... exposure (prevent skin ... Diagnosis #Management #Treatment
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
GrepMed Handbook Clinical ... , hair growth, skin ... tags, skin thickening ... Differential Diagnosis ... Endocrinology #Treatment
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
response to local skin ... retinal damage) • Skin ... test (this is a skin ... Behcet disease) Differential ... Arthritis, AS Treatment
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
integrity of: • Skin ... poor nutrition Clinical ... Muscle cramping Skin ... vasculitis Treatment ... #AscorbicAcid #Pathophysiology
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Pulmonary • Skin ... • M genavense Skin ... disease, adenitis, skin ... • M fortuitum Skin ... NTM #Infections #differential
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
osteomyelitis or skin ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... organism into the skin ... Mouth, throat, skin ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases
Ptosis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Ptosis (Greek- to fall) Drooping of the upper eyelid that usually results
Ptosis - Differential ... think about three clinical ... junction, cranial nerve ... eyelid: • Third nerve ... Redundant eyelid skin