Dermatology studies our skin and its diseases.
The skin is the largest organ in our body and gives each of us a unique and different physical appearance, allowing us to collect important personal data (age, race, sex, color, suffering and hygienic state), offering us an important window into the interior. of our body, being able to diagnose not only skin diseases but many internal pathologies of our body.
Why are venereal diseases part of dermatology?
The vast majority of sexually transmitted diseases present cutaneous and/or
visible to the naked eye, which allow us to diagnose, and sometimes firmly and without the help of other means of diagnosis, a certain pathology and thus proceed to its immediate treatment.
speaking of dermatology
Classifying skin diseases is a very difficult and complex task, since only the nomenclature (name of the disease) makes it even more difficult, since each entity can have several names; This partly depends on the geography, the countries, their languages and concepts.
The complexity becomes deeper when we talk about diseases almost exclusively of the skin and others that are syndromes or part of another general or internal disease of our body; nor is there a very clear limit that separates one variety from another of a certain disease in many cases.
The symptoms of a skin disease or syndrome are not the same throughout the evolution of a pathological process, as there are stages, phases, types, complications, etc.; We must take all of this into account when seeing the patient, questioning him, looking for antecedents and then examining him; This requires a lot of attention from the doctor and, in my opinion, the medical visit should last at least 30 minutes, although quite often and before the patient sits down in front of the specialist, we can establish the diagnosis.
The biopsy is necessary in certain cases apart from some analysis or complementary tests.