approach to the patient with neurological disease ppt

... 052. Approach to the Patient with a Skin Disorder (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 52. Approach to the Patient with a Skin Disorder APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH ... that the erosion is the primary lesion and the redness and scale are secondary, while the correct interpretation would be that the patient has a pruritic eczematous dermatitis with erosions caused ... Fig. 52-3) and to formulate a differential diagnosis (Table 52-4). For instance, the finding of scaling papules (present in patients with psoriasis or atopic dermatitis) places the patient in...

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... papulosquamous skin disease is characterized by small and large erythematous papules and plaques with overlying adherent silvery scale. Figure 52-8 Chapter 052. Approach to the Patient with a Skin...

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... against the surface of the skin and rotated with downward pressure until it penetrates to the subcutaneous tissue. The circular biopsy is then lifted with forceps, and the bottom is cut with iris ... history (particularly relevant for patients with melanoma, atopy, psoriasis, or acne) 10. Social, sexual, or travel history as relevant to the patient DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES Many skin diseases ... skin is anesthetized with 1% lidocaine with or without epinephrine. The skin lesion in question can be excised or saucerized with a scalpel or removed by punch biopsy. In the latter technique,...

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... and the base of the lesion is scraped gently with a scalpel blade. The material is placed on a glass slide, air-dried, and stained with Giemsa or Wright's stain. Multinucleated epithelial ... noting the amount of blanching that occurs. Granulomas often have an opaque to transparent, brown-pink "apple jelly" appearance on diascopy. Figure 52-11 Chapter 052. Approach to the ... may also aid in the demonstration of tinea versicolor and in recognition of ash leaf spots in patients with tuberous sclerosis. Figure 52-12 Diascopy is designed to assess whether a skin lesion...

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... every portion of the routine history and physical examination. The duration of symptoms may reveal the chronicity of disease. The past medical history may alert the physician to the presence of ... influence the course of disease and its treatment. The family history may suggest an underlying familial cancer predisposition and point out the need to begin surveillance or other preventive therapy ... Increasing evidence links the expression of certain genes with the prognosis and response to therapy (Chaps. 79, 80). Occasionally a patient will present with a metastatic disease process that is...

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... elicits the desire to scratch. Pruritus is often the predominant symptom of inflammatory skin diseases (e.g., atopic dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis); it is also commonly associated with ... Table 52-3 Common Dermatologic Terms A schematic representation of several common primary skin lesions (see Table 52-1). Chapter 052. Approach to the Patient with a Skin Disorder (Part ... epidermal atrophy). Scar: A change in the skin secondary to trauma or inflammation. Sites may be erythematous, hypopigmented, or hyperpigmented depending on their age or character. Sites on hair-bearing...

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... correlates highly with diagnosis (Fig. 52-6). For example, a hospitalized patient with a generalized erythematous exanthem is more likely to have a drug eruption than is a patient with a similar ... individual skin lesions and make it possible to assess the distribution of the eruption accurately. The Chapter 052. Approach to the Patient with a Skin Disorder (Part 4) Figure 52-5 ... advisable to assess the patient before taking an extensive history. This way, the entire cutaneous surface is sure to be evaluated, and objective findings can be integrated with relevant historic...

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... lesions with a generalized arrangement are common and suggest a systemic etiology. Figure 52-9 Erythema multiforme. This eruption is characterized by multiple erythematous plaques with ... represents a hypersensitivity reaction to drugs (e.g., sulfonylamides) or infections (e.g., HSV). (Courtesy of the Yale Resident's Slide Collection; with permission.) Figure 52-10 ...

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... Approach to the Patient with Cancer (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 77. Approach to the Patient with Cancer Approach to the Patient with Cancer: Introduction The ... (surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and biological therapy) results in the cure of nearly two of three patients diagnosed with cancer. Nevertheless, patients experience the diagnosis of ... Many diseases occur because the specialized cells fail to perform their assigned task. Cancer takes this malfunction one step further. Not only is there a failure of the cancer cell to maintain...

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... The first branch re- quired the annotators to fill in the domain descrip- tion of the names in question together with their et- ymologies if required, while the second asked them to determine the ... the analysis of these relations according to the require- ments of the task, we have decided to use the ones listed in Table 1 together with their description in the second column. The third column ... comparable stereotypes since the naming task should favor fur- ther terms to the category word in order to exagger- ate, to evoke and thereby to be more effective. The first constituent of our approach uses the pattern...

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... deriving the final situation-type of the text. (6) ! told the guy at the door to watch ouL but the idiot wouldn'! listen. The utterance corresponding to the first grammatical clause creates the ... is the guy at the door and the speaker and the relationship of the speaker having told the guy at the door to watch out. The word but can be viewed as function mapping situation-types into ... governed by the intention being served by the choice of the referring expression. Consider. then, an utterance such as the following: (6) [ told the guy al the door to watch out. but the idiot...

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