Mycobacterium ulcerans disease, commonly called Buruli ulcer (BU), is a neglected and emergent tropical disease. Buruli ulcer is endemic in the rural wetlands of the tropical countries/regions of Africa, The Americas, Asia, and Australia but is uncommon in non-African countries. Infection with M. ulcerans often leads to extensive destruction of skin and soft tissue with the formation of large u...

It is generally stated in books on anatomy that sebaceous glands are absent from tlie skin of the palm of the hand and sole of the foot; and in Strieker's Histology it is stated in addition that they are absent from the dorsi of the third phalanges and glans penis. In 1875, in the Police Hospital at Burrisaul, I examined a constable who had been sent in from an outpost with an intractable ulcer...

on " Oriental Sore" by Captain Henry Smith, I.M.S. In the course of this article under the heading of "Treatment" he condemns " nitric acid and such agents" as "unnecessarily severe," because " they remove the sound with the diseased tissues and leave a scar larger than is necessary, a point of importance when the ulcer happens to be on the face." The treatment, however, which he recommends, na...

With the implementation of color image processing methods, the image of dermatological ulcers are analyzed in order to detect the affected area of the skin. The detection of classification rate focus on the application of feature extraction method that segment, classify and analyze the tissue composition of skin lesions or ulcers. Indexing of skin ulcer images was performed based on the statist...

Recurrent foot ulceration is a major cause of morbidity in diabetic patients. Discrepancy between the stiffness of the plantar skin and underlying soft tissues may influence the likelihood of ulceration. Tissue properties change with diabetes primarily due to high blood glucose which promotes intermolecular cross-linking of structural proteins thus leading to altered structure and function of t...

A 38-year-old-female presented at the Oral Medicine Clinic complaining of pain under her tongue that became worse during chewing, and radiated to her right ear. The pain started two months earlier and gradually increased in intensity. The patient reported that she smoked about twelve cigarettes per day, a habit that she maintained for the last twenty years. She also admitted that she consumed a...

We report a case of a 22-year-old previously healthy woman with Hodgkin's lymphoma who presented initially with multiple lymphadenopathy and later, with a solitary cutaneous ulcer. Unlike Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma subtypes, skin involvement of Hodgkin's lymphoma is extremely rare. The prognosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma with skin infiltration is felt to be extremely poor. Contrary to other reports, th...

Yaws or ‘puru’ is a skin ulcer that occurs mainly in the hot wet regions of the earth. The bacteria that causes it is indistinguishable in shape and size from the syphilis bacteria, but it is transmitted by skin contact. It was said that of the many diseases prevalent in the Malay states early in the twentieth century, none was of more concern and importance to the Malays than ‘puru’. Although ...

Background & Objective: Chronic non healing ulcers or scar undergoing malignant transformation is a rare phenomenon with an estimated incidence of 2%. Though, numerous predisposing factors have been identified, still it is rarely diagnosed and commonly mistaken for a benign condition. The objective of this study was to verify the efficacy of the Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology/ Scrape cytology ...