Varicella (chickenpox) is a highly contagious disease caused by varicella zoster virus (VZV). The primary infection results in acute varicella with fever, malaise, and a widely disseminated vesicular and itching rash, frequently solving with scars. The rash begins on the face, scalp, and trunk and occurs in crops; typically, lesions are at different stages of evolution. The oral mucous membrane...

Visceral leishmaniasis affects various organs including the kidneys; which can lead to renal failure and death. In order to verify this renal involvement, material was evaluated from 100 dogs naturally infected and with serological diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL). Inflammatory changes were present in 25.3% of the tubules, in 67.0% of interstitium and in 52.0% of glomeruli. Ther...

OBJECTIVES To identify the histopathological patterns of goiter in thyroidectomy specimens and their frequency in relation to age and gender of the patients. METHODOLOGY We present a retrospective data of 624 thyroidectomy specimens diagnosed over a period of six year (2007-2012) at the Department of Pathology, Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. RESULTS A total of 624 consecutive t...

The histopathology of the posterior half of one eye and the optic nerves of a man with Hunter's syndrome, who was known to have disc oedema without raised intracranial pressure for 11 years of his life, is reported. The possible pathogenesis of the disc oedema is discussed; an important contributory factor was the deposition of abnormal mucopolysaccharides within the sclera. This caused gross t...