Comedones in an Unusual Position

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 ...

Psoriasin and follicular hyperkeratinization in acne comedones.

pathological circumstances [5] . In the meantime, psoriasin has been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory skin diseases, and its levels were found to increase in response to inflammatory stress. In addition, retinoic acid (RA) and inflammatory agents have been implicated in the upregulation of psoriasin [6, 7] . Psoriasin was shown to be induced not only in psoriatic epi...

Postherpetic Comedones in Two Chinese Han Patients

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...