Causality, severity and preventability assessment of adverse cutaneous drug reaction: a prospective observational study in a tertiary care hospital.

Introduction: The number of subjects involved in a clinical trial are limited, whose findings cannot be extrapolated to the entire population.Due to the emergence of newer molecules the pattern of Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reaction(ACDR) also changes frequently. The need for this study is for early diagnosis, to reduce the morbidity and mortality due to ACDR and to ensure safety of the patients.

Subcutaneous zygomycosis caused by Mucor hiemalis in an immunocompetent patient.

Zygomycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection with a high mortality rate. It is known to cause invasive disease in immunocompromised hosts but it may produce only cutaneous/ subcutaneous infections in immunocompetent hosts. Treatment is difficult due to its fulminant course and lack of effective anti-fungal drugs.

Cutaneous angiosarcoma of the head, neck, and face of the elderly in type 5 skin.

Cutaneous angiosarcoma is a rare, highly malignant vascular tumor with three clinical types. It is predominantly seen in the white-skinned people and rarely dealt with among the colored races. Cutaneous angiosarcoma of head and neck of the elderly is a great mimicker with many clinical presentations.