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| What type of UV Radiation causes aging in the skin? |
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| What type of UVR burns the skin? |
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| True or false - The Corneum stratum is markedly thinned in aged skin? |
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| What strength of Tretinoin (All-Trans-Retinoic acid) cream is licensed for the treatment of photodamage? |
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| What drug class do Tretinoin, Tazarotene and Isotretinoin fall into? |
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| The Retinoids (Vitamin A analogues) |
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| Side effects of retinoids |
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| Photosensitivity (due to thinning of the corneum stratum), Skin irritation improving after 2-3 weeks |
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| Another name for Molluscum Sebaceum |
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| True or false - Lesions of Squamous Cell Carcinoma are quite Radio-sensitive. |
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| What proportion of Basal Cell Carcinomas arise from "covered" areas of skin? |
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| True/False. Morphoeic BCCs are the least concerning as they do not infiltrate deeper layers of skin |
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What condition is described thus:
An autosomal dominantly inherited disorder
with multiple BCCs, bone abnormalities
- including bifid ribs and jaw cysts -
as well as palmar pits and a tendency
to mesodermal tumours. |
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| Basal cell naevus syndrome |
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| Another name for Basal Cell Papilloma |
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What lesion has this characteristic pathology:
"localized irregular epidermal thickenings surmounted by a much thickened stratum corneum.
The epidermal cells are small and basaloid and surround foci of whorls of stratum corneum (horn cysts)" |
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| Seborrhoeic wart (basal cell papilloma) |
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| What percentage of solar keratoses transform to SCCs? |
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