The number of macules is usually registered at diagnosis in the first clinical examination of leprosy patients. The question studied here is whether this practice is of any interest as an indicator of the precocity of detection of the prognosis. The study is based on the 26,996 paucibacillary patients detected from 1957 to 1982 in Polambakkam Leprosy Centre (South India) for whom the number of ...

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is classically defined by the presence of multiple café-au-lait macules as one of the diagnostic criteria. Turner syndrome (TS) can also present with café-au-lait macules along with short stature. Our patient is the fifth reported with both NF1 and TS and the first who has been on growth hormone for short stature associated with TS.

Dowling Degos disease is characterised by hyperpigmented macules arranged in a reticulate pattern in the flexures. The rare hypopigmented variant shows characteristic acanthosis with antler like rete ridges but with pigment only at the tips of the rete ridges. We describe here a rare variant with coexistence of characteristic reticulate hyperpigmentation and hypopigmented macules, which has bee...

We present the case of a 4-year-old boy with annular, pruritic macules on face, not responsive to application topical immunosuppressive therapy for atopic dermatitis. Clinically, cracked surface and crusted, raised borders, slowly enlarging were observed boy's cheeks. Dermatoscopy evidenced centrifugal extension border hyperactivity, represented by multiple peripheral pustules, mainly follicula...

Piebaldism is a rare genodermatosis in which depigmented skin areas are unresponsive to topical or light treatment. This article describes the importance of transplant techniques using noncultured melanocytes (minigrafting) in the treatment of piebaldism.

The first case of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis was reported in India by ia machari in 1922. A series of cases oi tins infection were reported later on by Napier anci other workers; but not a single case has een reported from treated kala-azar cases in endemic area in China up to the presen im?Both of ns have made a careful search amo g the treated cases either from other clinics 01 1 the...

With only 43 described stygobionts and two isopod species the obligate groundwater fauna of Iran, a vast country with over 10% limestone surface, is inadequately known. Here, we report discovery Asellus ismailsezarii sp. nov. from Zagros mountains, first eyeless depigmented asellid Iran. The new morphologically similar to monticola Birstein, 1932, but it fully depigmented, has slightly curved p...

Two major types of DUH have been described, based on distribution of lesions: dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria (DUH), in which a mixture of hyper and hypopigmented macules occur all over the body presenting as a generalised leukomelanoderma with relative sparing of the face, palms, and soles and dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria (DSH), which is characterised by a symmetrical distribut...