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>> Clinical Knowledge Summaries

Clinical Knowledge Summaries (Formerly PRODIGY) guidance offers advice on the management of conditions and symptoms that are commonly seen in primary care (general practice) and first contact care. Guidance is advisory and has been developed to assist health care professionals together with patients make decisions about the management of a wide number of conditions.  

The website contains a large number of patient information leaflets to which the British Association of Dermatologists has had input.  For an A to Z list of leaflets please click on the following addresss:

http://cks.library.nhs.uk/patient_information/browse_all_leaflets/clinical_subjects/skin_and_nail. 

Leaflets include the following topic areas:

Abscess
Acne
Angioedema
Athlete's foot

Balanitis
Behcet's disease
Birthmarks
Blisters
Blushing
Body odour
Body piercing
Boils
Burns and scalds

Cancer of the skin
Cellulitis
Chickenpox
Cold sore
Corticosteroid preparations (topical)
Cradle cap
Cuts and grazes

Dandruff

Eczema (atopic)
Eczema (contact dermatitis)
Eczema (discoid)
Eczema (varicose)
Emollients
Epidermolysis bullosa. (EB)

Fungal nail infection

Genital herpes

Hair loss
Hand, foot and mouth disease
Head lice
Hyperhidrosis

Impetigo
Ingrown toenail
Itching

Leg ulcer
Lichen planus
Lupus
Lyme disease
Lymphoedema

Malignant melanoma
Moles
Molluscum contagiosum
Nappy rash
Nettle rash

Oral thrush

Pemphigus vulgaris
Pilonidal sinus
Pressure ulcers
Prickly heat
Psoriasis

Raynaud's phenomenon
Ringworm
Rosacea

Scabies
Scarlet fever
Scars
Shingles
Slapped cheek syndrome
Stretch marks
Sunburn

Thrush
Thrush, men
Tuberous sclerosis

Vitiligo

Warts

Photographs of the above conditions can be accessed via the image database on the dermatology section of the National Electronic Library for Health website http://libraries.nelh.nhs.uk/skin/searchResponse.asp?categoryID=8947&dg=224

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