Publications by authors named "Rajasekharan Parvathy"

A 40-year-old manual labourer presented with easy fatiguability, recurrent vomiting and loss of weight of 3 months, duration. Upon examination, there was significant axillary and cervical lymphadenopathy. No pallor, icterus or clubbing was evident.

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A 14-year-old girl was referred for evaluation of headache with episodes of transient blurring of vision, and intermittent fever for 4 weeks. On examination she was conscious and febrile, with multiple annular purpuric skin lesions present over the face and back. Neurological examination revealed a bilaterally extensor plantar response, with bilateral papilloedema.

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A 14-year-old boy was referred to us with a history of progressive painless massive symmetrical cervical lymphadenopathy, provisionally diagnosed as lymphoma. Multiple biopsies were needed, and confirmed the diagnosis of Rosai Dorfman disease (RDD), which is a very rare benign condition. Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy, also known as RDD, manifests as bulky lymphadenopathy in children and young adults.

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