Post transplant patients are more vulnerable to the opportunistic fungal infections secondary long -standing treatment on immunosuppressive therapy. A conscientious look in post renal transplant patients view of any is crucial. Aureobasidium pullulans an agent responsible for various pathologies leading nodules with ulceration on skin and systemic infection abcess formation viscera. Keyw...

Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis (MRH) is a rare and debilitating systemic disorder characterized by cutaneous nodules and destructive polyarthritis. Due to its unknown etiology, the treatment of MRH varies with different rates of success, which causes treatment options to be rather independent and empirical. In the present study, a case of a 48‑year‑old woman with a 12‑month history of polya...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic disorder in which cutaneous findings are often prominent. These may be polymorphous to the extent that sarcoidosis may mimic many other cutaneous diseases. We describe a 56-year-old woman with involvement of the skin, eyes, bones, heart, and lung. After an initial presentation 10 years earlier of erythema nodosum with bilateral hilar adenopathy, there were three types ...

Pancreatic panniculitis is a rare disease in which necrosis of fat in the panniculus and other distant foci occurs in the setting of pancreatic diseases; these diseases include acute and chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic carcinoma, pseudocyst, and other pancreatic diseases. This malady is manifested as tender erythematous nodules on the legs, buttock, or trunk. Histopathologically, it shows the ...

We report the case of a young African American male with no significant past medical history presenting with low back and bilateral leg pain; presenting CBC and chemistries revealed elevated white blood cell count of 250,000, with anemia (Hb 6.8 g/dL) and thrombocytopenia (platelets 9 K/μL), and elevated LDH, 1008. Physical examination findings were notable for diffuse lymphadenopathy and lower...

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, inflammatory follicular skin disease with recurrent skin nodules, sinus tracts, and scarring. We observed a case of HS associated with relapsing polyarthritis. On presentation the patient had a flare of polyarthritis with an increase in the number and size of pustular nodules. He has had similar episodes 1 to 2 times yearly subsiding with antibiotic t...

We experienced a 58-year-old Korean man with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma with features of histologically anaplastic large cell lymphoma involving the skin and testis. The patient had cutaneous nodules in both extremities and a palpable right testicular mass. Right orchiectomy was performed and specimens of removed testicle and skin nodules showed immunohistologically anaplastic large cell ly...

A 40-year-old male patient presented with increasing serum levels of calcitonin and CEA. He underwent potential curative surgery for medullary thyroid carcinoma, 3 years ago and then 7 months later he had metastasectomy and cervical lymph node dissection for recurrent disease. On admission he had multiple metastatic skin nodules on the chest wall and positron emission tomography-computed tomogr...

DOI: 10.4103/ijd.IJD_460_16 A 51-year-old man presented with numerous mobile, skin-colored, tender, subcutaneous nodules over the extensor aspects of his superior and inferior extremities for the past 2 years. These nodules measured between 1 and 5 cm in diameter. Some of the right pretibial lesions were ulcerated and oozed chalky substances. The associated small joints of hands and feet were d...

Metastases to the skin from internal tumors are uncommon, yet they may be the first presentation of such malignancies. They usually arise from the breast, lung and large bowel. Cutaneous metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma are extremely rare. We report a case of gastric adenocarcinoma that at presentation had multiple clinically benign looking skin nodules. Fine needle aspira...