Melasma: a clinicopathological study of 43 cases.

Melasma is a symmetrical hypermelanosis of the exposed skin characterized by brown macules on the sun-exposed areas of the skin. The present study was carried out on 43 patients to analyze the correlation between histopathological features with clinical and Wood's light examination. The study showed a clinical and histopathological discordance of 16.

Multiple eccrine hidrocystomas: report of two cases treated unsuccessfully with atropine ointment.

Eccrine hidrocystomas are rare, benign, cystic lesions with a lining that resembles that of the eccrine sweat gland and may be solitary or multiple. Multiple eccrine hidrocystomas occur predominantly on the face as asymptomatic, skin-colored to bluish lesions associated with a chronic course and seasonal variability. Treatment of multiple lesions on the face is challenging.

Clear cell syringoma--association with diabetes mellitus.

Clear cell syringomas are rare histological variants of syringoma and are clinically indistinguishable from ordinary syringomas. We report a case of clear cell syringoma associated with diabetes mellitus.

Congenital Langerhans cell histiocytosis: the self-healing variety.

Congenital self-healing Langerhans cell histiocytosis (CSHLCH) is a rare variant of Langerhans cell histiocytosis, presenting at birth or in the neonatal period with cutaneous lesions that involute spontaneously. Affected infants are otherwise well with no systemic illness. A case of CSHLCH, probably the first case report from India, is described.