An Unusual Sunset

An Eclipse before Sunset

Kimura’s Disease – An Unusual Presentation

Introduction: Kimura’s disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, presenting as painless subcutaneous nodules with lymphadenopathy and peripheral eosinophilia, mainly disturbing the head and neck region. It mainly affects Asian males in their 2nd to 4th decade of life. One such case of Kimura’s disease, which is uncommon in Indian natives, is reported.   Case Report: A ...

Unusual Sunset Terminator Behaviour of Vlf Signals at 17khz during the Earthquake Episode of Dec., 2004

We have been monitoring VTX station at 17KHz from the Centre for Space Physics VLF receiver. While everyday we receive the so­called classic patterns of sun­rise and sun­set, we started observing irregular behaviour of the local terminators from December 22nd, 2004 onward and it continued till the 30th of December, 2004. It is to be recalled that the devastating Tsunami occurred on the 26th of ...

An Unusual Case of Acute Epiglottic Abscess

A 48 year old man presented to our outpatient department with the history of absolute dysphagia, and fever for two days. On examination patient was febrile with drooling of saliva. Oropharynx was minimally congested. Indirect laryngoscopy revealed odematous epiglottis with pus pointing over the lingual surface. Radiography of soft tissue, neck lateral view, showed the thumb sign which suggeste...

Mycosis fungoides with an unusual clinicopathological presentation

It is a challenging task to diagnose mycosis fungoides (MF), a type of primary cutaneous lymphoma, in the early stages of its development, due to the unspecific presentations associated with the disease. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry conduce to a more definite diagnosis. Presence of atypical T-cells in epidermis and upper dermis is the most significant pathologic finding. Herein...