Management of Hair and Nail Disorders — Flashcards

What is the most common association of irregular nail pitting and onycholysis?_____

Loss of hair _____ months after an event of physiological stress points towards a diagnosis of telogen effluvium

Mnemonic for causes of scarring alopecia: **SF2L3P** S: _____ F: Favus and Kerion (Inflammatory Tinea capitis) F: Folliculitis decalvans L: Lichen planopilaris L: Lupus vulgaris L: Lupus erythematosus - discoid (DLE) P: Pseudopelade of Brocq

Causes for non-scarring alopecia (Mnemonic: **THATS STDT**): - _____ (Non-inflammatory: grey patch and black dot types) - **H**ormonal: Hypothyroidism, Androgenetic alopecia - Anagen effluvium - Alopecia areata - Trichotillomania - Secondary syphilis (moth-eaten alopecia) - SLE (Predominantly non-scarring; can also cause scarring alopecia) - Telogen effluvium - **D**eficiency of Zinc and Iron

_____ or 20 nail dystrophy, is seen in lichen planus

Contact/topical immunotherapy with agents such as _____, diphenylcyclopropenone (DPCP), is used for extensive alopecia areata

_____ is characterised by discrete, smooth, and circular areas of hair loss developing over weeks to months

Muehrcke's lines on nails are specific for _____ and is due to pathology in the nail bed

_____ sign is melanonychia with the pigmentation of proximal nail fold seen in subungual melanoma

_____ is a neurocutaneous disorder associated with ungual fibromas, which are flesh-colored lumps emerging from nail folds