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Dermatology
Other Eczematous Eruptions
Built from Dermatology, 5th Edition
What’s inside
7 sections · 114 slides
Overview
- Scope of this topic
- How these eczemas group together
Seborrheic Dermatitis
A common, mild, chronic eczema of oily skin areas
- What seborrheic dermatitis is
- History of seborrheic dermatitis
- Who gets seborrheic dermatitis
- Malassezia yeast and the skin
- Chain from oil glands to inflammation
- Why sebum amount alone is not the answer
- General clinical features
- Infantile seborrheic dermatitis
- Complications of infantile disease
- Adult disease: dandruff and scalp involvement
- Scaling limited to the scalp
- Inflamed scalp and forehead disease
- Facial involvement
- Chest and skin-fold involvement
- Course, flares, and associations
- Microscopic (pathology) features
- Distinguishing infantile disease from look-alikes
- Rare look-alikes to keep in mind
- Scalp disease vs psoriasis
- Distinguishing adult facial and trunk disease
- Differential diagnosis of skin-fold rashes in adults
- Treating infantile seborrheic dermatitis
- Treating adult seborrheic dermatitis
Asteatotic Eczema
Dry, cracked skin that turns eczematous - the 'dried riverbed' pattern
- What asteatotic eczema is
- Causes of dry skin behind this condition
- History and how common it is
- How the skin barrier breaks down
- Clinical appearance
- Close-up of the crazy-paving pattern
- When and where it flares
- Microscopic (pathology) features
- What else can look like this
- Treatment
Disseminated Eczema (Autosensitization)
Eczema spreading to sites far from the original rash
- What disseminated eczema is
- How the theory of 'spread' developed
- How often it happens
- Autosensitization with venous ulceration
- Id reactions from nickel allergy
- Pathology and what it can be confused with
- Treatment
Nummular Dermatitis
Coin-shaped, very itchy patches of eczema
- What nummular dermatitis is
- Who gets it
- Link to contact allergy and dry skin
- Coin-shaped plaques on the leg
- Acutely inflamed, oozing lesions
- Coin-shaped plaques with scale-crust
- Nummular dermatitis in children
- Pathology and what it can be confused with
- Treatment
- Pityriasis alba
HTLV-Associated Infective Dermatitis
A rare childhood eczema linked to a specific virus
- What HTLV-associated infective dermatitis is
- The virus behind the disease
- History of the disease and its viral cause
- Where the virus is common
- Clinical features
- Diagnostic criteria overview
- Criteria for diagnosing HTLV-associated infective dermatitis
- Distinguishing it from other conditions
- Treatment
Regional Eczematous Disorders
Eczema patterns tied to a specific body region or cause
- What stasis dermatitis is
- History and how common it is
- From vein pressure to skin damage
- A closer look at the pathogenetic factors
- Pathogenetic factors in stasis dermatitis
- Pathogenetic factors in stasis dermatitis (continued)
- The itch-scratch-inflammation loop
- Early clinical signs
- Cutaneous signs of chronic venous hypertension
- Cutaneous signs of chronic venous hypertension
- Later clinical stages and ulceration
- Microscopic (pathology) features
- What else can mimic it
- Telling 'red leg' causes apart
- Treatment
- What dyshidrotic eczema is
- What drives it
- Blisters of the hands
- Firm papules and pseudovesicles
- Microscopic (pathology) features
- What else can look like it
- A palm eczema look-alike
- Treatment
- Infectious eczematous dermatitis
- Distinguishing features and treatment
- What juvenile plantar dermatosis is
- The feet as a site for various eczemas
- Differential diagnosis of dermatitis of the foot
- Differential diagnosis of dermatitis of the foot (continued)
- History and how common it is
- Why shoes and moisture matter
- Clinical appearance
- Pathology and what it can be confused with
- Treatment
- What diaper dermatitis is
- How common it is
- Why urine and stool cause irritation
- Acute irritant diaper dermatitis
- Differential diagnosis of diaper dermatitis
- A complication of chronic irritation
- Treatment
- Key takeaways
- Practical points to remember
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- Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)