DERMATOLOGY MNEMONICS

ALBINISM: Type 1 vs 2 Classification 

 "One has None. Two Accumulates":

• Type I: have no pigment.
• Type II: No pigment at birth, but accumulates as person ages.

 2. Baldness: risk factors 

"Daddy Doesn't Deny Getting Hair Implants":

•  Diet
• Disease
• Drugs
• Genes
• Hormones
• Injury to the scalp

GRADES OF FEMALE BALDNESS

3.Clubbing: causes

CLUBBING:

•  Cyanotic heart disease
• Lung disease (hypoxia, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis)
• UC/Crohn's disease
• Biliary cirrhosis
• Birth defect (harmless)
• Infective endocarditis
• Neoplasm (esp. Hodgkins)
• GI malabsorption

4.Cutaneous inflammation: patterns

 "Pus of Pig Valve"

  *Remove the vowels: PSFPGVLV:

•  Psoriaform
• Spongiotic (eczematous)
• Folliculitis
• Panniculitis
• Granulomatous
• Vasculopathic
• Lichenoid
• Vessiculobullous

5. Generalized skin hyperpigmentation: causes

 "With generalized, none of skin is SPARED":

•  Sunlight
• Pregnancy
• Addison's disease
• Renal failure
• Excess iron (haemochromatosis)
• Drugs (eg busulphan)

5.Lichen planus: characteristics

•  Planus has 4 P's:
•  Peripheral
• Polygonal
• Pruritus
• Purple

6. Malignant melanoma: 3 sites with poor prognosis

 BANS:

•  Back of Arm
• Neck
• Scalp

7. Melanoma vs. basal cell, squamous cell carcinoma: metastatic ability

•  MElanoma is more likely to
• MEtastasize.

  *Basal and squamous hardly ever metastasize.

8. Nodules: painful cutaneous nodules causes

BENGAL CO.

•  Blue rubber bleb nevus
• Eccrine spiradenoma
• Neurilemmoma/ Neuroma
• Glomus tumor
• Angiolipoma/ Angioleiomyoma/ Angiosarcoma
• Leiomyoma
• Cutaneous endometriosis/ Calcinosis cutis
• Osteoma cutis

9. Psoriasis: pathophysiology

 PSORIASIS:

•  Pink Papules/ Plaques/ Pinpoint bleeding (Auspitz sign)/ Physical injury (Koebner phenomenon)/ Pain
• Silver Scale/ Sharp margins
• Onycholysis/ Oil spots
• Rete Ridges with Regular elongation
• Itching
• Arthritis/ Abscess (Munro)
• Stratum corneum with nuclei, neutrophils
• Immunologic
• Stratum granulosum absent/ Stratum Spinosum thickening

10. Raynaud's phenomenon: causes

COLD HAND:

•  Cryoglobulins/ Cryofibrinogens
• Obstruction/ Occupational
• Lupus erythematosus, other connective tissue disease
• Diabetes mellitus/ Drugs
• Hematologic problems (polycythemia, leukemia, etc)
• Arterial problems (atherosclerosis)
• Neurologic problems (vascular tone)
• Disease of unknown origin (idiopathic)

 11. White patch of skin: differential

 "Vitiligo PATCH":

•  Vitiligo
• Pityriasis alba/ Post-inflammatory hypopigmentation
• Age related hypopigmentation
• Tinea versicolor/ Tuberous sclerosis (ashleaf macule)
• Congenital birthmark
• Hansen's (leprosy)

12. Wound healing: factors delaying

 DID NOT HEAL:

•  Drugs
• Infection/ Icterus/ Ischemia
• Diabetes
• Nutrition
• Oxygen (hypoxia)
• Toxins
• Hypothermia/ Hyperthermia
• EtOH
• Acidosis
• Local anesthetics