NBME 23 Tinea corporis (NBME Answers)

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A 26-year-old woman comes to the physician ...
Tinea corporis 🔍 / 📺 / 🌳 / 📖
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submitted by ∗soph(84)

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Toto the dog (tinea can be spread through animals) was with the Three little munchkins, the Tinea tin man and with the wizard wearing turbin in the dermaophyte forest :)

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submitted by ∗jboud86(18)

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FA 2019 page 152. The whole getting bitten by kitten things is a distractor. The two giveaways are NO lymphadenopathy and erythematous plaques with central clearing and scaly borders. Bartonella spp. is the cause of cat-scratch disease and causes bacillary angiomatosis. Bacillary angiomatosis can be found on page 469 of FA 2019.

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submitted by ∗alexxxx30(68)

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also the word annular was supposed to be very helpful (it means ring shaped)...however my dumbo self didn't know this. Would have lead me directly to ring worm tinea

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submitted by ∗deberawr(12)

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i got ring worm from a friend's cat and so my awful middle school experience helped me answer this question

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fatboyslim Tinea is not a ringworm though, it's a fungus +

fatboyslim Ok just Googled it, it's called ringworm but it's a misnomer. They called it that because it looks like rings +1

specialist_jello i answer most of my questions slumdog millionaire style, based on life experiences xD +3

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submitted by chetzy(0)

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tine corporis can cause central clearing and due to cat too.

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