Chromoblastomycosis with Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

A 47 year old male patient had extensive verrucous lesions on the right upper limb for 33 years. One of the lesions-4eveloped ulceration which had not healed for6 years. A clinical diagnosis of chromoblastomycosis was confirmed histopathologically and mycologically, Cladosporium cladosporioides being the organism cultured.

Systemic fungal infections in south Indian infants.

Systemic fungal infections were identified in 13 of 1468 necropsies of infants dying in the 1st year of life in a south Indian hospital. Candidiasis was present in 11 infants, most often as pneumonia or enteritis. Spread to other organs occurred in four cases.

Fungal and nocardial infections of the kidney.

This report describes 16 cases of candidiasis, seven of aspergillosis, four of mucormycosis, two of cryptococcosis and one of nocardiosis in which the kidney was involved. Characteristic patterns of renal tissue injury were seen in each of these infections. Candida and nocardia caused microabscesses in the cortex and medulla.

The pattern of angiodysplasia of the gastrointestinal tract in a tropical country.

Angiodysplasia of the intestine was diagnosed by selective visceral angiography in ten of 30 patients from India with unexplained recurrent hemorrhage of the gastrointestinal tract. In contrast with the reports from the western literature, most of the instances involved the small intestine and occurred in the third decade of life.