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Pustule

Aka: Pustule
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  1. Causes
    1. Hair Follicle
    2. Spontaneous non-follicular Pustule
    3. Secondary evolution of Vesicles
  2. Description
    1. Raised circumscribed lesion
    2. Contains purulent exudate (white, yellow, green)
    3. Follicular Pustules are conical with hair in center
    4. Non-follicular Pustules vary in shape
  3. Labs
    1. Gram Stain and culture of pustular discharge
  4. Examples
    1. Drug eruption
    2. Generalized pustular Psoriasis syndrome

pustule (C0241157)

Definition (SNOMEDCT) A vesicle filled with leukocytes
Concepts Finding (T033)
SnomedCT 271760008, 47002008
English SKIN PUSTULE, Pustule, NOS, Skin Pustule(s), skin pustules, skin pustules (physical finding), pustules, pustules were seen, skin pustule, pimple, Pustule, Pussey spot, Pustule (disorder), Pustule (morphologic abnormality), pustule
Dutch pustula
French Pustule
German Pustel
Italian Pustola
Portuguese Pústula
Spanish Pústula, pústula (anomalía morfológica), pústula (trastorno), pústula
Japanese 膿疱, ﾉｳﾎｳ
Czech Pustula
Hungarian pustula
Sources
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


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