Friday Pop Quiz 7/18/2025
A 45-year-old man presents to the office with weakness and the lesions on his hand pictured. His symptoms have been progressively worsening over the last 5 months. He works as a nurse and has had difficulty walking up the stairs and lifting patients. He has a history of frontal migraines for which he occasionally takes ibuprofen. He takes a cholesterol lowering medication and is otherwise heal …
A 45-year-old man presents to the office with weakness and the lesions on his hand pictured. His symptoms have been progressively worsening over the last 5 months. He works as a nurse and has had difficulty walking up the stairs and lifting patients. He has a history of frontal migraines for which he occasionally takes ibuprofen. He takes a cholesterol lowering medication and is otherwise heal … 
A 70-year-old woman with biopsy-confirmed bullous pemphigoid presents with new-onset confusion, hypotension, and leukocytosis two weeks after starting systemic prednisone 60 mg daily. She also reports tremors and blood glucose of 320 mg/dL. What is the next best step in management?
A. Taper corticosteroids and begin doxycycline and … 
The epidermal closure shown in this image utilizes which of the following suture techniques?
A. Simple interrupted
B. Simple running
C. Vertical mattress
D. Horizontal mattress
E. Running subcuticular
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A patient presents for evaluation of a solitary painful lesion on the shin. She feels well and denies any systemic symptoms. A recent fasting blood glucose was within normal limits. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
A. Pretibial myxedema
B. Morphea
C. Lipodermatosclerosis
D. Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma
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A healthy 50-year-old patient presents with three-month history of progressive hair loss and scalp redness with associated pruritus. On closer scalp examination, there is perifollicular erythema, inflammation, and scaling. There appears to be loss of follicular openings in the erythematous patch. In addition, erythematous and skin-col … 