Differential Diagnosis For Skin Conditions

Differential Diagnosis For Skin Conditions
Week 9
Differential Diagnosis For Skin Conditions Week 9
Properly identifying the cause and type of a patient’s skin
condition involves a process of elimination known as differential
diagnosis. Using this process, a health professional can take a
given set of physical abnormalities, vital signs, health assessment
findings, and patient descriptions of symptoms, and incrementally
narrow them down until one diagnosis is determined as the most
likely cause.
In this Lab Assignment, you will examine several visual
representations of various skin conditions, describe your
observations, and use the techniques of differential diagnosis to
determine the most likely condition.
To Prepare
· Review the Skin Conditions document provided in this week’s
Learning Resources, and select one condition to closely examine
for this Lab Assignment.
· Consider the abnormal physical characteristics you observe in
the graphic you selected. How would you describe the
characteristics using clinical terminologies?
· Explore different conditions that could be the cause of the skin
abnormalities in the graphics you selected

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Week 9 Differential Diagnosis For Skin Conditions

Week 9 Differential Diagnosis For Skin Conditions

Properly identifying the cause and type of a patient’s skin

condition involves a process of elimination known as differential

diagnosis. Using this process, a health professional can take a

given set of physical abnormalities, vital signs, health assessment

findings, and patient descriptions of symptoms, and incrementally

narrow them down until one diagnosis is determined as the most

likely cause.

In this Lab Assignment, you will examine several visual

representations of various skin conditions, describe your

observations, and use the techniques of differential diagnosis to

determine the most likely condition.

To Prepare

· Review the Skin Conditions document provided in this week’s

Learning Resources, and select one condition to closely examine

for this