Health Assessment Cards

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Alopecia

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Baldness or general hair loss

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Annular

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circular shape to skin lesion

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Bulla

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elevated cavity containing free fluid larger than 1 cm diameter

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Confluent

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skin lesions that run together

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Cyanosis

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dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of unoxygenated hemoglobin

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Erosion

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scooped out, shallow depression in skin

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Erythema

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intense redness of skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries, as in fever or inflammatin

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Excoriation

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self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching

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Fissue

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linear crack in skin extending in dermis

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Furnucle

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Boil-suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle

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Hemangioma

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skin lesion due to benigh proliferation of blood vessels in the dermis

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Iris

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Target shape of skin lesion

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Jaundice

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yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood; Liver disease

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Keloid

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Hypertrophi scar, elevated beyond site of original injury

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Lichenification

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tightly packed set of papules that thickens skin, from prolonged intense scrathing

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Lipoma

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benigh fatty tumor

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Maceration

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sofening of tissue by soaking

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Macule

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flat skin lesion with ony color change, ,1< cm freckles

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Nevus (mole)

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circumscribed skin lesion due to excess malanocytes; can be flat and elevate

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Patch

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is macula greater than 1cm

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Pallor

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excessively pale, whitish-pink color to lightly pigmiented color

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Papule

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palpable skin lesion of ,1 cm diameter

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Vitligo

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Absence of melanine

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Assessment Acronym

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ABCDEF-Assymetrical; Borders, Color variation, Diameters, Elevation, Funny looking,

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Diaphoresis

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Profuse Sweating

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Tugor

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Amount of Bounce back in the skin

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Motility

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Pinch skin under the clavicle

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Dependent Edema

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is in the extremeties

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Non-pitting

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puffy (no pitting)

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Plaque

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skin lesion in which papules coalesce or come together

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Purpura

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red-purple skin

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Purpura

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red-purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels

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Pustule

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elevated cavity containing thick turbid fluid

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scale

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compact dessicated flakes of skin from shedding of dead skin cells

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Telangiectasia

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skin lesion dute to permanently enlarged & dilated blood vessels that are visible

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Ulcer

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sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue that causes a deep depression in skin, etending into dermis

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Vesicle

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elvated cavity containg free fluid up to 1 cm in diameter

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Wheal

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raised red skin lsion due to interstitial fluid

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Zosteriform

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linear shape of skin lesion along a nerve route

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Ecchymoisis

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Bruise

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Cherry Angiomas

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A cherry angioma is a noncancerous (benign) skin growth. For people over 30 years.

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Lentigines

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Liver Spots

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Seborrhea

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oily

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Xeroisis

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Dry

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Pruritus

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is the most common of skin symptoms; occurs with dry skin, aging, drug reactions

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Rashes

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Are a commn cause of seeking health care

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Hirsutism

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shaggy or excessive hair

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Urticaria

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Hives

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Freckles

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small, flat macules of brown melanin pigment that occur on sun-exposed skin

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Mole (nevus)

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A proliferation of malanocytes, tan to brown color, flat or raised.

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Birthmark

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tan or brown

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Seborrheic keratosis

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Seborrheic keratosis is noncancerous (benign) wart-like growths on the surface of the skin.

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Actinic keratois

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Actinic keratosis is a precancerous growth on the skin.

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Senile Purpura

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Bleeding under the skin; the vascuality of the skin dimishes while the vascular fragility increases; a minor trauma may prduce dark read discolored areas.

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Common Shapes of Primary lesions

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Primary lesions-occur on unaltered skin. Annular -rings and Grouped/clustered

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Secondary Lesion

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occur over time or changes because of a factor such as scratching or infection.

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Hirsutism

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Excessive body hair. In female, this forms a male patten of hair distribution on the face and chest and indicates endocrine abnomalities

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What are common secondary shapes and configurations?

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Linear-a scatch, streak, line or stripe, Discrete-distinct, individual lesions that remain separate
Diffuse-spread over an entire area
Target or Iris- concentric rings of color in the lesions
Serpiginous-serpent-like; confluent could be patches, vesicles or whelas.

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Primary Skin Lesions -Characteristics

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Macule, Papule, Plaque, Wheal, Cyst, Urticaria (hives), Vesicle, Bulla, Pustule

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Macule

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Primary lesion-Solely a color change, flat and circumscribed or less than 1 cm. Freckles, flat nevi, hypopigmentation, pettechia, measles, scarlet fever

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Papule

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Primary lesion-Something that can be felt (solid, elevated, circumscribed, less that 1 cm diameter cuased y superficial thickening in the epidermis-elevated nevus (mole) or wart

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Patch

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Primary lesion- that are larger than 1 cm. Measles rash or vitiigo

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Wheal

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Primary lesion- superficial, rasied transient, erythmatous, slightly irreguoar shape due to edema in tissue (mosqutio bite, allergic reaction

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Urticaria (Hives)

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Primary Lesion-Wheals coalesce to form extensive reaticion intensely pruritic

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Vesicle

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Primary Lesion-Blister- elevated cavity containing free fluid up to 1 cm. Clear serum flows if wall is ruptured. Herpes simplex, chicken pox, herpes zoster

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Bulla

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Primary Lesion-Larger than 1 cm diameter; usually sign chmbered; superficial in epidermis ; it is thin walled so it ruptures easily (Friction blister , pemphigus burns or contact dermitis

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Secondary Lesions

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Crust, scale, Fissue, Erosion, ulcer, scar, Lichenification, keloid and excoriation*

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Excoritation

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Self-inflicted abrasion; superficial sometimes crusted; scratches from intense itching-insect bites, scabies dermatitis

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Petechia

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tiny hemorrhages 1-3mm , round, flat, dar red, purple or brown **** Look for Petechia and Pupura for child abuse thrombocytpenia look in mouth for petechia

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Purpura

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patches of petechia and ecchymosis; flat, red to purple

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Basal cell cancer

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Most common cancer;Basal cell carcinoma is a slow-growing form of skin cancer. least lethal; starts as pimple and get wider; develops in areas of skin exposure between hairline and upper lip;

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Squamous Cell Cancer

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Men are 2 x as likely;erthematous scaly patch with sharp margins, 1 cm or more. Develops central ulcer surrounding erythema. Usually on hands or head or exposed to solar radiation. Less common than basal cell carcinoma but grows rapidly

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Malignant Melanoma

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Half lesions aris from preexisting nevi. Uusally brown; can be tan, black, pink-red, purpole or mixed. Ofter irregula or notched border . May have scaling, flacking or oozing. Common location on truck and back in men and women orn the legs in women and on palms, soles of feet and nails in blacks

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Types of Alopecia

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Alopecia Areata, Traumatic and Trichotillomania

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Alopecia Areata

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Sudden appearance of a sharply circumscribed, round or oval balding patch . Unkwn cause of patches, person usually has complete regrowth

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Traumatic Alopecia:

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Linear or oval patch of hair line, a part or scattered distribution; causes by tramautic from hair rollers, tight braiding or tight ponytail, barrettes

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Alopecia-Trichotillomania

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Traumatic self-induced hair loss usually the result of compulsive twisting or plucking.

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Folliculitis

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Superficial infection of hair fllicules. Multiple pustules, whiteheads, with hair visible at ceter of erythematous base. Usually on arms, legs, face and buttocks.

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Paronychia

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Red, swollen, tender, inflammation of nail folds, fungal infection that breaks in cuticle in those who perform wet work. Dishwashers.