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Red blanching lesions?
- Erythema
- Erythroderma
- Telangiectasia
- Spider angioma
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Erythema
- localized redness of skin, may be hot, may have fluid in dermis
- Ex: localized poison ivy
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Erythroderma
- Erythema that comes w/ scalling
- GeneralizedSeen in common childhood symptoms
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Telangiectasia
- Permanently dilated superficial small vesselsCan be anywhere in body
- See on legs, face
- Ex: Sclerodema, rosecia
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Spider Angioma
Central red arterioles, surrounded by pattern of thins wall capillaries ressembling legs.
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Red, non-blanching
- Purpura
- Petechaie
- Ecchymosis
- Palpable purpura
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Purpura
extraversation of blood vessels - from bright red to dusky purple ( blood outside of vessels)
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Petechaie
- small, appears as rash, or cluster
- May be due to bruises
- May be sing of serious disease
- Ex: Endocarditis
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Ecchymosis
- flat area of color change, may go from blue/black to brown, yellow, green
- May be a result of trauma, infection, coagulation defects
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Palpable purpura
- pupuric papule or plaque
- raised discoloration
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