Skin and soft tissue infections — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Polyarteritis nodosa is a necrotizing vasculitis that involves most organs, except the _____

Answer: lungs

Flashcard 2: Which infectious skin disorder is an acute, painful infection of the deeper dermis and subcutaneous tissue? _____

Answer: Cellulitis

Flashcard 3: Which infectious skin disorder is caused by infection with anaerobic "flesh-eating" bacteria or S. pyogenes? _____

Answer: Necrotizing fasciitis

Flashcard 4: _____ is an infection of the upper dermis and superficial lymphatics caused by GAS, and presents with a well-defined demarcation between infected and normal skin.

Answer: Erysipelas

Flashcard 5: Macrolides can be used to treat _____ caused by S. pneumonia, H. infuenza, and Moraxella catarrhalis.

Answer: community aquired pneumonia

Flashcard 6: Streptococcus pyogenes results in _____, which is a deep infection of the skin

Answer: cellulitis

Flashcard 7: Pneumocyctis pneumonia

Answer:

Extra: diffuse bilateral infiltrates on CXR

Flashcard 8: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis can affect the _____, _____, _____, _____, and _____.

Answer: CNS

Flashcard 9: prostatitis

Answer: acute - bacterial infection chronic - usually sterile

Extra: in male: dysuria, urinary frequency, urgency, low back pain

Flashcard 10: lateral medullary syndrome

Answer: PICA stroke

Extra: acute vomiting, vertigo, nystagmus; loss of pain/temp in limbs/face, dysphagia, hoarseness, Horner's syndrome, ataxia, dysmetria, loss of gag reflexmnemonic: Don't PIC A hoarse that can't eat.