The psychosocial impact of vitiligo in Indian patients.

Background: Vitiligo has a special significance in Indian patients both because depigmentation is obvious on darker skin and the enormous stigma associated with the disease in the culture.

Aims: This study was carried out to determine the beliefs about causation, aspects of the disease that cause concern, medical, and psychosocial needs of the patients, expectation from treatment and from the treating physician, and effects of disease on the patient's life.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 50 patients with vitiligo.

Oral squamous cell carcinoma of the mandibular region presenting as multiple discharging sinuses: imperative of magnetic resonance imaging and computerized tomography.

A 40-year-old woman presented with red swelling of the right mandibular region of the face. She had several painful, progressive, ulcerative, raised serosanguinous discharging sinuses. The presence of granules and bony contents were not reported.

Punctate vascular papules on the tongue and scrotum.

We report a 60-year-old man who presented with a 2-year history of painless red raised lesions involving the tongue and scrotum. Histopathology was suggestive of angiokeratoma. Oral angiokeratomas are most commonly found as a component of the generalized systemic disorder in Fabry's disease or fucosidosis.

Causative Drugs and Clinical Outcome in Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS), Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), and SJS-TEN Overlap in Children.

Background: Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are the most severe adverse drug reactions in children.

Objectives: The objective was to study the causative drugs and outcome in children with SJS, SJS-TEN overlap, and TEN.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective analysis of all the in-patient records of children below 18 years of age with the diagnosis of SJS, SJS-TEN overlap, and TEN was carried out.

Segmental Becker's nevi with mucosal involvement.

Becker's nevus otherwise known as Becker's pigmented hairy nevus, is a common melanotic epidermal hypermelanosis. It usually presents as a large unilateral patch of hyperpigmentation and hypertrichosis on the shoulder, chest, or back of an adult man. It can be bilateral or multiple and affect areas other than the usual sites.

Linear syringocystadenoma papilliferum: an unusual location.

Syringocystadenoma papilliferum is a rare benign adnexal skin tumor of apocrine or eccrine glands. We report here an 18-year-old girl who had linear syringocystadenoma papilliferum in the pubic region, which is very rare.

Glomus tumour of the nail bed treated with the 'trap door' technique: a report of two patients.

Glomus tumours of the nail bed are an excruciatingly painful condition. The treatment of choice for these is surgical excision. However, since most cases are treated by surgeons, the usual method of treatment is total nail avulsion and excision.