It’s Pop Quiz Friday 7/13! Let’s see if you get it right!
An 80-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease developed a new pruritic eruption with these cutaneous findings. What is the antigenic target of the autoantibodies generated in this condition
A. NC16A of BPAg1
B. NC16A of BPAg2
C. C-terminal of BPAg1
D. C-terminal of BPAg2
E. alpha-6-beta-4 integrin
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An 80-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease developed a new pruritic eruption with these cutaneous findings. What is the antigenic target of the autoantibodies generated in this condition
A. NC16A of BPAg1
B. NC16A of BPAg2
C. C-terminal of BPAg1
D. C-terminal of BPAg2
E. alpha-6-beta-4 integrin
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This patient is not a candidate for systemic therapy and declines surgical treatment. Which of the following injectable agents is an oncolytic virus that is FDA-approved for inoperable disease?
A) Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC)
B) Interleukin-2
C) GM-CSF
D) Rose bengal
E) bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
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What is the next step when seeing this patient?
A) No further work up needed
B) Endoscopy to look for vascular malformations w/ potential GI bleeding
C) Careful follow up to monitor for malignant transformation, including possible imaging and biopsy in the future.
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Histology of these lesions in a patient with sarcoidosis would most likely show:
A) Granulomatous inflammation
B) Lobular panniculitis
C) Necrotizing vasculitis
D) Septal panniculitis
E) Thrombophlebitis
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Which of the following is not true of this condition?
A) Associated with twin gestation
B) Associated with primigravidas
C) Associated with premature labor
D) Associated with maternal obesity
E) Associated with third trimester of pregnancy
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