Semiology: Dermatology
Dermatology · Clinical Specialties
How it begins
Del lenguaje de las lesiones elementales al diagnóstico diferencial: exploración sistémica de la piel, anejos y mucosas con correlaciones clínicas de alta relevancia diagnóstica.
What it covers
- Systematic Dermatological Examination
- · Optimal Exploration Conditions
- · Systematic Description of a Dermatological Lesion
- · Dermatological Examination Instruments
- · Nikolsky Sign and Immediate Diagnostic Tests
- Primary Elemental Injuries
- · Injuries Without Liquid Content or Elevation (Color Changes)
- · High Solid Injuries
- · Injuries with Liquid Content
- Secondary Elementary Injuries
- Distribution, Configuration and Topography of Lesions
- · Diagnostic Distribution Patterns
- · Configuration (Grouping) of Lesions
- Semiology of Color and Pigmentation
- · Hyperpigmentation: Etiological Classification
- · Hypopigmentation and Depigmentation
- Vascular and Purpuric Lesions
- · Injuries that Disappear with Vitropressure
- · Purpuric Lesions: They Do Not Disappear with Vitropressure
- · Erythema Nodosum: Deep Vascular Injury
- Semiology of Pruritus
- · Classification of Pruritus (IFSI 2018)
- · Systemic Pruritus: Causes and Diagnostic Keys
- Semiology of Skin Ulcer
- Semiology of the Cutaneous Adnexa
- · Hair Semiology: Alopecia
- · Cicatricial Alopecias: The Non-Reversible
- · Nail Semiology: Nails as a Mirror of the Organism
- Dermatoscopy: Diagnostic Principles and Algorithms
- · Fundamental Dermatoscopic Structures
- · Dermatoscopic ABCD Algorithm (Stolz, 1994) for Melanocytic Lesions
- · ABCDE Melanoma Clinical Rule
- Main Inflammatory Dermatoses
- · Psoriasis: The Prototype of Chronic Inflammatory Dermatoses
- · Atopic Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis): The Prototype of Chronic Pruritus
- Skin Infections: Semiology and Diagnosis
- · Bacterial Infections
- · Dermatotropic Virus Infections
- · Fungal Infections: Dermatophytosis
- · Scabies (Scabies): The Great Itchy Imitator
- The Skin as a Mirror of Systemic Disease
- · Connective pathologies: Cutaneous Manifestations
- · Diabetes Mellitus and the Skin
- · Cutaneous Manifestations of Neoplasias: Paraneoplastic
- Diagnostic Procedures in Dermatology
- · Skin Biopsy: Types and Techniques
- · Tzanck test
- · Direct Examination with KOH (Potassium Hydroxide)
- · Patch Test: Diagnosis of Allergic Contact Dermatitis
- · Phototopography Test and Photosensitivity Evaluation
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- Subject
- Dermatology
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 50
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02