Looking at Skin Rashes

 When candidates in the PACES exam are asked to examine a skin lesion, some, after a thoughtful hesitation, come up with a lay expression of ‘dermatitis’ or simply a ‘rash’!

This tutorial, complementing the one on ‘Examination of the Skin’, presents many common, and some less common, skin lesions, describes their morphology and shows their distribution – all important requirements for making an initial assessment.

This will not only help you to face the examiners, but it will also give you more than a working knowledge of most cutaneous problems you are likely to encounter in the examination and clinical practice.

Dr M Afzal Mir, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician, UHW, Cardiff.