Dermatology red flags and allergy mimickers

On this weeks episode of The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360, our host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, welcomes special guest Meghan Solc, DVM, DACVD, who is also one of dvm360's 2024 Veterinary Heroes, to discuss why it is important to consider multiple diagnosis for skin diseases, long term management of autoimmune diseases, the significance of systemic symptoms, and more within the world of dermatology.

Below is a partial transcript

Adam Christman, DVM, MBA: So let's just, everyone picture it. A dog enters the clinic for an evaluation of a skin condition. Other than allergies, so what could this patient have? So what are some things that we need to talk about with those things?

Meghan Solc, DVM, DACVD: We want to have a bunch of differential diagnoses on our radar, because everything can really look the same. And so when we have a dog coming in that are crusty, that have infections, you know, depending on their patterns of lesions, you may have things from allergy to T cell lymphoma on your list. So there's a wide range of different diseases to consider.

So generally, rule of thumb, you know, things that we learn in vet school and in my internship and residency, we're going to be rolling out things that can cause folliculitis, like dermatophytosis... But then we're looking at weirder things, like sebaceous adenitis [and] pemphigus foliaceus. So there's a lot of different things that look essentially the same until you start digging a little bit deeper

Christman: Digging a little bit deeper, [I] see what you did there, a little metaphor for derm, I like that.