🔄Thread: Rashes Involving Palms and Soles for USMLE Exams 💥
Understanding rashes that involve the palms and soles is crucial for the USMLE exams. Here’s a comprehensive list with mnemonics to help you remember!
Understanding rashes that involve the palms and soles is crucial for the USMLE exams. Here’s a comprehensive list with mnemonics to help you remember!
1️⃣ Syphilis
🔷️ Description: Secondary syphilis presents with a non-itchy, reddish-brown rash on palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Sore Pals" - Secondary syphilis On Reddish palms and soles.
🔷️ Description: Secondary syphilis presents with a non-itchy, reddish-brown rash on palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Sore Pals" - Secondary syphilis On Reddish palms and soles.
2️⃣ Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
🔷️ Description: Tick-borne illness causing a petechial rash starting on wrists and ankles, spreading to palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Rocky Wrists" - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever on wrists and palms.
🔷️ Description: Tick-borne illness causing a petechial rash starting on wrists and ankles, spreading to palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Rocky Wrists" - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever on wrists and palms.
3️⃣ Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
🔷️ Description: Caused by coxsackievirus, presenting with painful red spots on palms, soles, and oral mucosa.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Coxsackie Kids" - Hands, Feet, and Mouth in Kids.
🔷️ Description: Caused by coxsackievirus, presenting with painful red spots on palms, soles, and oral mucosa.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Coxsackie Kids" - Hands, Feet, and Mouth in Kids.
4️⃣ Kawasaki Disease
🔷️ Description: Pediatric vasculitis with a polymorphous rash, including palms and soles, often with peeling skin.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "CRASH and Burn" - Conjunctivitis, Rash, Adenopathy, Strawberry tongue, Hand/foot changes.
🔷️ Description: Pediatric vasculitis with a polymorphous rash, including palms and soles, often with peeling skin.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "CRASH and Burn" - Conjunctivitis, Rash, Adenopathy, Strawberry tongue, Hand/foot changes.
5️⃣ Erythema Multiforme
🔷️ Description: Hypersensitivity reaction causing target-like lesions on palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Target Hands" - Target lesions on Hands and soles.
🔷️ Description: Hypersensitivity reaction causing target-like lesions on palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Target Hands" - Target lesions on Hands and soles.
6️⃣ Measles
🔷️ Description: Viral illness with a maculopapular rash that spreads to palms and soles after starting on the face.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "3 Cs and a P" - Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis, and Palms.
🔷️ Description: Viral illness with a maculopapular rash that spreads to palms and soles after starting on the face.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "3 Cs and a P" - Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis, and Palms.
7️⃣ Janeway Lesions
🔷️ Description: Non-tender, erythematous spots on palms and soles, associated with bacterial endocarditis.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Jane’s Endo Spots" - Janeway lesions in Endocarditis.
🔷️ Description: Non-tender, erythematous spots on palms and soles, associated with bacterial endocarditis.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Jane’s Endo Spots" - Janeway lesions in Endocarditis.
8️⃣ Reactive Arthritis
🔷️ Description: Presents with keratoderma blennorrhagicum on palms and soles, associated with arthritis, urethritis, and conjunctivitis.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Can’t See, Can’t Pee, Can’t Climb a Tree" - Conjunctivitis, Urethritis, Arthritis on palms and soles.
🔷️ Description: Presents with keratoderma blennorrhagicum on palms and soles, associated with arthritis, urethritis, and conjunctivitis.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Can’t See, Can’t Pee, Can’t Climb a Tree" - Conjunctivitis, Urethritis, Arthritis on palms and soles.
9️⃣ Scarlet Fever
🔷️ Description: Caused by Group A Streptococcus, presenting with a fine, sandpaper-like rash that can involve the palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Strawberry Skin" - Scarlet fever with Sandpaper rash and Strawberry tongue.
🔷️ Description: Caused by Group A Streptococcus, presenting with a fine, sandpaper-like rash that can involve the palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Strawberry Skin" - Scarlet fever with Sandpaper rash and Strawberry tongue.
🔟 Toxic Shock Syndrome
🔷️ Description: Caused by bacterial toxins, presenting with a diffuse red rash that can involve the palms and soles, often followed by desquamation (peeling).
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Toxic Peeling" - Toxic shock with Peeling palms and soles.
🔷️ Description: Caused by bacterial toxins, presenting with a diffuse red rash that can involve the palms and soles, often followed by desquamation (peeling).
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Toxic Peeling" - Toxic shock with Peeling palms and soles.
1️⃣1️⃣ Meningococcemia
🔷️ Description: Severe bacterial infection causing a petechial or purpuric rash that can involve the palms and soles, along with signs of sepsis.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Meningo Palms" - Meningococcemia with Purpuric And Life-threatening Meningococcal Septicemia.
🔷️ Description: Severe bacterial infection causing a petechial or purpuric rash that can involve the palms and soles, along with signs of sepsis.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Meningo Palms" - Meningococcemia with Purpuric And Life-threatening Meningococcal Septicemia.
1️⃣2️⃣ Gonococcemia
🔷️ Description: Disseminated gonococcal infection presenting with tender pustules on an erythematous base, often involving the palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Gono Pustules" - Gonococcemia with Pustules on palms and soles.
🔷️ Description: Disseminated gonococcal infection presenting with tender pustules on an erythematous base, often involving the palms and soles.
🔷️ Mnemonic: "Gono Pustules" - Gonococcemia with Pustules on palms and soles.
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