Severity and risk of COVID-19 in cancer patients: An evidence-based learning.

The immune system of cancer patient gets compromised because of cancer therapy, surgery, and malignancy and thus the probability of infection are increased than the general patients. Immunosuppression can expose cancer patients to serious complications which can lead to delay in diagnosis and unnecessary hospitalizations that may adversely affect the prognosis of the disease. Patients who received chemotherapy or surgery within the 30 days before novel coronavirus disease pandemic have more risk of infection than the patients who had not undergone chemotherapy or surgery.

Prolonged Remission of Psoriasis with Azathioprine Pulse Therapy.

Background: Although various therapies used for the treatment of psoriasis are able to produce remission, yet relapses, a common problem, remains frequent. It was observed that treatment with intermittent high dose (IHD) and continuous low dose (CLD) azathioprine can produce prolonged and durable remission in psoriasis.

Aims: To see the long term effect of azathioprine pulse therapy (APT) in psoriasis.

Topical adapalene in the treatment of plantar warts; randomized comparative open trial in comparison with cryo-therapy.

Background: Various therapeutic modalities, which are available for treating plantar wart, have not been successful every time.

Aims: To evaluate topical adapalene under occlusion in the treatment of plantar warts and compare it with cryo-therapy.

Materials And Methods: 50 patients with 424 plantar warts were included in this single center, two arm, prospective, randomized, control, open study.

Fixed drug eruption due to ornidazole.

A 56-year-old male developed an ulcer on his glans penis and mucosae of upper and lower lips 3 days after taking ofloxacin, cephalexin, and ornidazole. Clinically, a provisional diagnosis of fixed drug eruption was made. The causative drug was confirmed by an oral provocation test which triggered a reactivation of all lesions only with ornidazole.

Plantar warts treated with topical adapalene.

Background: Treatment of plantar warts caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) strain types 1, 2 and 4 is often difficult and a challenging problem. Various therapeutic modalities available for treating this problem have not been uniformly successful.

Purpose: The purpose of present study is to evaluate the efficacy of adapalene applied locally with occlusion in plantar warts.

Dexamethasone cyclophosphamide pulse therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report.

Objective: To put systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in remission for a prolonged period.

Methods: Dexamethasone cyclophosphamide pulse (DCP) therapy was used in a 40-year-old female with SLE of 3 years' duration. DCP therapy comprises an intravenous infusion of 100 mg dexamethasone in 500 ml of 5% glucose over 1-1(1/2) hours on 3 consecutive days along with cyclophosphamide 500 mg in the same drip on the first day.

Methotrexate-betamethasone weekly oral pulse in psoriasis.

Objectives: Methotrexate in psoriasis helps to clear the lesions fast but remission is short. To produce long-term remission, methotrexate has been combined with betamethasone.

Methods: A total of 40 patients with psoriasis (plaque type: 36, erythrodermic: four) were included in an open randomized study.

Dexamethasone cyclophosphamide pulse therapy in lichen amyloidosus: a case report.

Objective: To clear the itching and lesions of lichen amyloidosus completely, which is a chronic, troublesome disease of the skin with variable results from various therapeutic modalities.

Methods: Dexamethasone cyclophosphamide pulse (DCP) therapy was given to a 53-year-old man with lichen amyloidosus of 3 months duration. DCP therapy comprises an intravenous infusion of 100 mg dexamethasone in 500 ml of 5% glucose over 1-1(1/2) hours on 3 consecutive days.

Homoeopathy for the treatment of lichen simplex chronicus: a case series.

Twenty-seven patients with chronic lichen simplex involving various parts of the body were treated. Hydrocotyle was prescribed to 21 patients in different potencies (6c, 30c, 200c, 1 M, 10 M), Thuja to three patients (1 M, 10 M), Graphites (6c), Kali bich (30c) and Sulphur (200c) to one patient each during 1 year study period. Only two patients showed complete improvement with Thuja and one with Graphites.

Fixed Drug Eruptions in a 9 Months Old Child.

A 9-month-old child developed fixed drug eruptions due to co-trimoxazole. Causative agent was confirmed by repeated provocation tests.

Pruritic Psoriasiform Cutaneous Lesions in Secondary Syphilis.

A 33 year old male had severely itchy psonasiform lesions on his scalp, face, arms and shaft of penis. He also had loss of hair on the lateral half. of both eyebrows and the temporal.

Contact Allergy To Hard Contact Lens.

Three patients developed recurrent irritation, redness and watery discharge from their eyes after using hard contact lens. Patch tests were positive with the material of the hard contact lens and negative with teepol, sodium lauryl sulphate and material of the soft contact lens. All the three patients became alright after they stopped,using hard contact lens.

Evaluation of the Allergenicity of Two Methacrylate Based Self Hardening Acrylic Sealers.

Two industrial selling agents based on methyl methacrylate were evaluated for their allergenic potential. Clinical examination of the 20 employees of the firm exposed to the agents for 1 month to 5 years did not reveal any evidence of contact dermatitis. Patch tests with the sealing agents on 56 volunteers including 12 employees were also negative in all.

Contact Hwersensitaity to Mustard Khal and Mustard Oil.

This report describes 2 females patients having contact dermatitis due to mustard khal the residue of,mustard seeds after the oil hasbeen extracted out. The dermatitis was caused by mbdng mustard khal with the cattle feed and was occurring on the hands and forearms, though the face, ear lobules and neck were also mvolved because of the practice of applying mustard oil on the hair. Patch tests were positive with the mustard khal and its fractionation products in both the patients and with mustard oil in one patient.

A Survey For Keratosis Punctata of the Palmar Creases Among Indians.

To find out the incidence of k6ratosis punctata of the palmar creases among Indians, 700 consecutive patients add their attendants were surveyed for typical lesions. Fifteen patients were discovered to have characteristic keratotic masses or pits limited to the flexural creases of their palms and fingers. The lesions in each case were asymptomatic.

Paronychial Involvement in Pemphigus Vulgaris.

A 16 year old girl having pemphigus vulgaris developed recurrent episodes of erythema, swelling and vesiculation of the posterior nail folds of fingers and toes, often associated with vesiculo-bullous from the paronychial lesions showed acanholytic cells, and a biopsy from the posterior nail fold showed suprabasal split containing acantholytic cells.