OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To assess the efficacy of laser therapy for the management of premalignant oral lesions. STUDY DESIGN The study group consisted of seventy consecutive laser-treated patients with oral leukoplakia. The microscopic diagnosis included idiopathic focal keratosis, dysplasias of all grades, and verrucous hyperplasia (proliferative verrucous leukoplakia). Thirty-nine patients h...

Penile carcinoma frequency varies widely in different parts of the world and comprises 1-10% of all the malignancies in males. Majority of the cases of penile carcinoma are squamous cell carcinoma of penis comprising 60% to 70% of all cases. Warty carcinoma of penis is an unusual neoplasm and a variant of penile squamous cell carcinoma comprising 5%-10% of all the variants. The other histologic...

Penile cutaneous horn is a clinical term that describes protruding hyperkeratosis, usually conical in shape, located on penile glans. Penile localization of this lesion, predominantly located on sun-exposed areas, is very rare. The association with malignancy on the penis makes proper identification of these lesions essential. We present a 45-year-old man with a cutaneous horn, 25 mm in size, l...

Sir, Verrucous haemangioma (VH) is a rare, congenital and localized vascular malformation that appears at birth or in early childhood with a predilection for the lower extremities (1). It later becomes verruciform and tends to enlarge and spread peripherally. The linear form of VH is extremely rare and only a few case reports have been presented in the literature (2 – 4). We describe a linear V...