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ENT
Reading the skin of the nose, face, and head and neck
Built from Behrbohm — Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases with Head and Neck Surgery
What’s inside
6 sections · 35 slides
Overview
- Why an ENT surgeon needs dermatology
- Skin findings that are really systemic disease
Skin type
The baseline that shifts which diseases appear and how wounds heal
- Oily skin: the seborrheic type
- Two oily-skin diseases that look similar
- Dry skin, and why oily skin heals worse
- Two things to record about any skin
Naming the lesion
A shared vocabulary is the foundation of every skin diagnosis
- Why precise lesion words matter
- Primary vs secondary lesions
- Primary lesions in plain language
- Secondary lesions in plain language
- Primary or secondary — do not get stuck on it
- Atlas of primary and secondary skin lesions
- Where the lesions sit: the pattern of distribution
- How to think through a skin diagnosis
Topical therapy
Medicine applied straight onto the skin — and why the base matters
- What a topical preparation is made of
- The three phases of a vehicle
- The phase triangle for topical bases
- Reading the phase triangle
- Choosing the right vehicle: the four questions
- Vehicle by skin type and body region
- Vehicle by how acute the inflammation is
- Vehicle by the shape of the lesion (morphology)
Topical active ingredients
The working drugs the vehicle delivers
- Urea and salicylic acid
- Topical corticosteroids
- Dyes, antiseptics, and topical antibiotics
Bringing it together
The core reasoning to carry into the clinic
- Three principles to remember
- One-line summary of the whole section
- Why can a corticosteroid never be used alone on infected skin?
- Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery