Symptom Checker: Lesional and Regional Dermatoses

    April 2018 in “ Blackwell's Five‐Minute Veterinary Consult Clinical Companion ”
    Karen Helton Rhodes, Alexander Werner
    TLDR The document provides a guideline to help identify skin conditions in small animals based on lesion characteristics.
    The document discussed the use of lesion characteristics and patterns in small animals to aid in forming differential diagnoses for dermatoses. It served as a preliminary guideline or "symptom checker" for common skin conditions, acknowledging the challenge of overlapping clinical signs. Examples included alopecia with erythema and crusting from corticosteroid injections, focal alopecia with skin thickening in a golden retriever due to scleroderma from cyclophosphamide, and sebaceous adenitis in a standard poodle showing diffuse partial alopecia with keratin collaring.
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