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Dermatology questions for NEET PG
520 Dermatology questions in the Recallab bank, each with a verified answer, every option explained and a reference to a current edition. 3 of them are published in full — the rest are in the app.
Questions
- A 68-year-old farmer has a slowly enlarging lesion beside his nose, present for two years. It is a translucent pearly nodule about 8 mm across with a rolled edge, fine telangiectatic vessels crossing…
- A 29-year-old man has intensely itchy grouped vesicles and excoriated papules over both elbows, knees and buttocks, coming and going for a year. He also reports bloating and loose stools. What would…
- A 26-year-old man has a non-itchy coppery maculopapular rash over the trunk that includes the palms and soles, generalised painless lymphadenopathy, and moist warty plaques in the perianal skin. He…
- A 38-year-old man has numerous symmetrical hypopigmented and nodular lesions over both arms, trunk and face, with loss of sensation over them, and thickening of both ulnar nerves. Which combination…
- A 24-year-old woman has persistent inflammatory acne over the jawline and chin despite two courses of oral antibiotics and a completed course of oral isotretinoin. Her periods are irregular…
- Which single factor is the most important predictor of prognosis in a primary cutaneous melanoma?
- A 30-year-old man has a single well-defined hypopigmented patch on his left forearm, about 6 cm across, with a raised erythematous margin and a dry hairless surface. Sensation over it is completely…
- A 48-year-old woman has had painful mouth erosions for three months, and now has flaccid blisters on the trunk that rupture easily leaving raw areas. Firm sliding pressure on normal-looking skin…
- A 22-year-old woman has several sharply marginated, chalky-white patches on the backs of both hands and around the mouth, which have enlarged over a year. The hairs within the patches are white…
- A Tzanck smear taken from the floor of a freshly deroofed vesicle shows large cells with several moulded nuclei sharing one cytoplasm, with margination of the chromatin. What does this finding…
- A 26-year-old woman has a single genital ulcer that appeared three weeks ago. It is painless, has a clean base and a firm indurated edge, and there is rubbery, non-tender bilateral inguinal…
- A man has fingernails showing irregular, randomly scattered pits, a yellow-brown discoloration under the nail plate resembling a drop of oil, and thickened debris lifting the distal nail. Which…
- A woman has a slowly enlarging reddish-brown plaque on the cheek with central atrophic scarring and an active rolled edge. Diascopy shows apple-jelly nodules. The chest radiograph shows apical…
- A man with dermatitis herpetiformis is prescribed dapsone. Ten days later he is breathless and deeply cyanosed, but the arterial oxygen tension is normal and oxygen makes no difference. His blood is…
- Two patients both show a linear band of IgG along the basement membrane. On salt-split skin, one binds to the roof of the artificial blister and the other to the floor. What does each result mean?