00:01 Let's move on to dermatomyositis. 00:03 So this is a disease afflicting generally patients who are a bit older than our patient, generally over the age of 50. 00:09 It's associated with proximal muscle weakness of the arms and the legs. 00:14 There's a number of different skin manifestations that we may find, Gottron's papules are shown here, one of the classic manifestations. 00:21 The shawl sign or the V-sign which is shown here as well on the right. 00:25 Then there's this heliotropic rash. 00:27 Now our patient does have this rash over the zygomatic processes of the face. 00:31 It's not really going on around the eyes, however, even though we do have some evidence of blepharitis. 00:37 More importantly, if a patient was being considered for dermatomyositis, we really should have some myositis. 00:44 And we're not getting any of that sort of picture nor any other manifestations of this disease. 00:49 Moreover, the facial rash of dermatomyositis lacks that bright erythema that we're seeing in our patient. 00:55 Either way, we can keep that one on our list but again, I think it's a little bit lower down in our differential. 01:01 Alright, seborrheic dermatitis. 01:04 This is a chronic, relapsing, mild dermatitis of unknown etiology though there are some associations with malassezia. 01:12 It's common in infants and in adults and particularly in those who are HIV positive. 01:18 It can have a prefilection for the scalp, behind the ears, the eyebrows, the nasolabial folds, the upper chest and the back, the ears, and certainly it can be associated with blepharitis. 01:30 Usually, these lesions are relatively well-demarcated. 01:34 They're scaly, flaky, somewhat itchy often described as greasy-looking plaques. 01:40 The lesions that we're seeing in our patient however, are more erythematous than having this greasy appearance of seborrheic dermatosis. 01:48 So I think we can safely take that one off our list as well.
The lecture Dermatomyositis and Seborrheic Dermatitis by Stephen Holt, MD, MS is from the course Miscellaneous Skin Disorders.
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