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Pediatric Dermatology Flashcards

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  1. A 3-year-old with fever for 5 days shows conjunctival injection, strawberry tongue, cracked lips, and periungual desquamation. What is the diagnosis?

    Answer: Kawasaki disease

    Kawasaki disease features prolonged fever, mucocutaneous changes, and later periungual desquamation, requiring IVIG to prevent coronary aneurysms.

  2. An itchy child has burrows in the finger webs and family members with similar pruritus. What is the treatment of choice?

    Answer: Permethrin 5% cream

    Scabies is treated with topical permethrin 5%, with treatment of household contacts.

  3. A child presents with discrete pink papules with a central white 'herald patch' followed by a Christmas-tree distribution of oval scaly macules. What is the diagnosis?

    Answer: Pityriasis rosea

    Pityriasis rosea begins with a herald patch followed by a Christmas-tree pattern of lesions along skin cleavage lines.

  4. A child with a sore throat develops a diffuse sandpaper-like erythematous rash with accentuation in skin folds (Pastia's lines). What is the cause?

    Answer: Group A Streptococcus

    Scarlet fever results from group A streptococcal erythrogenic toxin, producing a sandpaper rash and Pastia's lines.

  5. A well-appearing neonate develops erythematous macules with central pustules on the trunk in the first days of life; a Wright stain shows eosinophils. What is the diagnosis?

    Answer: Erythema toxicum neonatorum

    Erythema toxicum neonatorum is a benign self-limited eruption with eosinophils on smear.

  6. A 10-year-old presents with well-demarcated erythematous plaques with silvery scale on the elbows and knees, plus pinpoint nail pitting. What is the diagnosis?

    Answer: Psoriasis vulgaris

    Silvery-scaled plaques on extensor surfaces with nail pitting are characteristic of psoriasis.

  7. A dark-skinned infant is born with brown-gray macules and pustules that rupture leaving collarettes of scale and hyperpigmented macules. What is the diagnosis?

    Answer: Transient neonatal pustular melanosis

    Transient neonatal pustular melanosis presents at birth with pustules that leave pigmented macules and scaly collarettes.