A 45-year-old patient from rural community presented with cough of three months associated with weight loss and excessive tiredness. He had no significant past medical history. On examination of the chest, coarse crepitations were heard on the right apical region. His haemoglobin is 9 gm%, total white is 10x109/L and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is 90 mm/hour. His chest radiograph s...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of multiple prognostic factors on the acute skin reaction in adjuvant breast cancer radiotherapy, in particular the impact of hypofractionation (HF) compared to conventional fractionation (CF) and tangential beam (TB) IMRT compared to three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT). METHODS Two-hundred and sixty-six breast cancer...

The paper describes an "immediate" skin reaction to derivatives of the diphtheria bacillus which is shown to be distinct from the "delayed" or "pseudoreaction" commonly seen in Schick tests on adults. The "immediate" reaction was passively transferred to local areas of the skin of other people.

Introduction Fixed drug eruption (FDE) is a pattern of a drug-induced skin reaction. It is characterized by skin erythematous plaques that recur at the same site each time the drug is administered. Several drugs have been associated to such cutaneous reaction, including, anticonvulsant agents, sulfonamides, non opioid analgesics and tetracyclines. Non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) ...

cell-mediated immunity (cmi) plays an important role in resistance against leishmaniasis. delayed-type hypersensitivity (dth) reaction measured by skin testing is a practical method of evaluation of cmi and is used as an aid to diagnosis and for epidemiological assessment of exposure to leishmanial infection. skin testing in leishmaniasis, generally known as montenegro or leishmanin test, requi...