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Dermatology mnemonics:
| Acute Rheumatic Fever | “the only way to a man’s heart, is through his pharynx” (i.e. acute rheumatic fever is secondary to a group A beta-hemolytic strep pharyngitis, but never impetigo (whereas either can cause PSGN)) |
| alopecia-causing meds | the ANTIdote is to CONvince them they CAN't COmb their Dry Hair (anti-convulsants, anti-cancer, anti-coagulants, anti-depressants, anti-hypertensives) |
| Argyll-Robertson pupil: | like a prostitute: accommodates but does not react |
| Clinical Symptoms Of Azotemia = | itching, twitching, wretching, and pericarditis |
| Increased ESR = | osteomyelitis, endocarditis, temporal arteritis, and tuberculosis |
| Blastomycosis | mnemonic = B’s blastomycosis with a single broad-based bud |
| Bullous Pemphigoid = | bullous pemphig-old |
| BP antigen II= | You’re 18 years old when you get pregnant and get herpes gestationis which has a 180kd antigen, which is a transmembrane protein (and therefore spans many diseases: BP, HG, and cicatricial pemphigoid) |
| candidal intertrigo = | symmetric, scrotum, and satellites (vs. tinea cruris) |
| CAN FOOL = | Neurofibromatosus 1 |
| 1. | café au lait macules (6 or more) |
| 2. | axillary or groin freckling |
| 3. | neurofibromas (2 or more) |
| 4. | first-degree relative with 2 criteria |
| 6. | o – characteristic bony deformities (??) |
| drug induced pemphigus = | CRAPP: captopril, rifampin, ampicillin, penicillin, penicillamine |
| DF vs. DFSP = | factor XIIIa is “a-ok”,(XIII is not unlucky because you only have DF); but things begin to become “protuberant” by age 34 (CD34) |
| ectopia lentis: | homocystinuria – downward dislocation; Marfan syndrome – upward dislocation (mnemonic: arched palate and lens both move up in Marfan’s, you pee down in homocystinuria) |
Eczematid-like purpura of Doucis
| and Kapetanalcis = | DK Donna Karen’s clothes itch |
| Keratins 1 and 10 | the terminal differentiation between a hot girl and an ugly girl is a 1 and a 10 (1 and 10 are the terminal differentiation specific keratins; i.e. expressed in the most superficial keratinocytes in the stratum corneum)(epidermolytic hyperkeratosis) vs. keratins 5 and 14 (basal cell specific keratins; EBS) |
| Eosinophilic spongiosis = | HAPPI |
H herpes gestationis (urticarial lesions)
A arthropod bite reaction, allergic contact dermatitis
P pemphigus (vulgaris and foliaceous)
P pemphigoid (urticarial lesions)
I incontentia pigmenti
| Fabry’s disease | picture a heavy metal band named “maltese cross” with lead singer Fabry (who is in a scandalous X-rated video with his wife who paints whorl-like configurations) |
| Gianotti-Crosti Syndrome = | PAC papular acrodermatitis of childhood for gangsters with Hep B |
| Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis) | “the rule of 50’s”: patients are almost always older than 50 with and ESR > 50 |
| Granuloma inguinale | Donovan had a beefy red body and recorded an album in-Guinale Africa |
HPV type mnemonic: (number increases from feet to face)
| • | plantar warts feet HPV 1 |
(can also remember that often there is only one plantar wart, but many flat warts on the face of HIV patient)
| Leishmaniasis | in the Middle East major phlebotomus has multiple "legions" of men loyal to him, but Christopher Columbus discovered the New World solo |
Lichenoid purpura of Gougerot
| and Blum | GB Green Bay is flat. |
| Lichen Planus = | purple, polygonal, pruritic, papules |
| Lichen myxedematosus | PML (papular mucinosis with lambda light chains) |
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| Measles | 4 “C”s and an “A”(well not really): cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, Koplik’s spots and vitamin A tx reduces morbidity and mortality |
| MEN2A | Mrs. Sipple runs the PTA in room 2A (MEN 2A or “Sipple’s syndrome” is a triad of P: parathyroid (hyperplasia), T: thyroid (medullary carcinoma of the), and A: adrenal gland (pheochromocytoma) |
| Nail-Patella syndrome | patients have bilateral posterior iliac horns (these horns look like triangles and as do the pathognomonic triangle lunula) |
| neurofibromatosus 1 | CAN FOOL (see above) |
| Paracoccidioidomycosis | mnemonic – need to take a boat (with a Mariner’s wheel) or a para-sail over to Brazil to get Paracoccidioidomycosis |
| Pemphigus Foliaceus = | 1st time you need a foley is when you’re 65 (desmoglein 1 is 165kd) |
| peripheral eosinophilia ddx | NAACP - (neoplasm, allergic reaction, addisons disease, CVD, Parasites) |
| PAN associations | C ryoglobulinemia |
L eukemia (hairy cell)
A rthritis
S jögrens syndrome
H epatitis B
| Platelets | they're not called "eightlets" for nothing (they survive 8 days in circulation AND one unit will increase your platelet count by 8 (8,000) (one of my favorite med school mnemonics even though it has nothing to do with dermatology) |
| Pox viruses | parapox gives you paravaccinia and the "milder" diseases vs. orthopox which are "O" so serious |
| reactive EPS associated with | MOPED: Marfan's, Osteogenesis imperfecta, PXE, Ehlers Danlos IV, Downs syndrome |
| Sea bather’s eruption | you sea bathing suits at the beach |
| Sjogren-Larson Syndrome: | Sjo your children FAO Schwartz and buy them a tricycle, scissors, and glistening dots. |
| Sweet’s syndrome = | Sweet mother of God you have AML |
| trichothiodystrophy | at the trichothiodystrophy zoo: they tried to give sulfur to the tigers and the polar bears, but it caused decreased fertility, and the children they finally did have (named PIBIDS and IBIDS) had short stature and intellectual impairment |
| Tuberous Sclerosis = | zits, fits, and nitwits |
| Wiskot-Aldrich syndrome | “WAS up?” (like the bud light commercial): WA: Wiskott-Aldrich, S: sialophorin, what’s “up” is your IgM and your chance for a lymphoreticular malignancy |
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