Feline Facial Dermatoses Challenge

Skin conditions involving the head and face of the cat can look similar but have very different causes. Use the pictures in addition to clues from the signalment to match each picture with the definitive diagnosis. In a clinical setting, you would have the benefit of many additional pieces of information, such as physical examination, history, and diagnostic tests-this exercise does not suggest that diagnosis should ever be made on appearance alone, and it is unlikely that the reader will make the correct diagnosis in all cases.

Empirical therapy based on a tentative diagnosis should not be attempted in many of these diseases. Immuno suppressive therapy is strongly contraindicated when infectious disease has not been ruled out.

Choose from the list of diagnoses in red; each disease corresponds with only one picture.

See PDF above for the correct answers and brief explanations.