A 26-year-old married female presented with a complaint of recurrent multiple ulcerative lesions on her body. After complete history and physical examination, a diagnosis of dermatitis artefacta was made. Dermatitis artefacta remains undiagnosed for quite some time because of its atypical skin changes, diverse methods used for producing skin lesions, lack of awareness about the disorder on the ...

introduction: hemangiomas are the most frequent benign tumors of the liver and detecting them from metastasis or other malignant hepatic tumors is of outmost importance. 99mtc- rbc scan is highly specific and is the method of choice for this differentiation. this scintigraphy is performed in planar and spect modes. these two procedures are in agreement most of the times, however since spect is ...

Between 20% and 35% of patients with systemic sarcoidosis have skin lesions. One of the unusual cutaneous presentations of sarcoidosis is a granulomatous tattoo reaction that may present alone or with other features of sarcoidosis. We present a case of sarcoidosis whom presented with multiple nodules on tattood skin accompanied with facial pulsy, parotid enlargement and uveitis.

Several skin conditions have been reported to occur on epidermal nevi, but it seems that co-occurrence of a vascular lesion and an epidermal nevus is a very rare phenomenon. Herein, a 17- year- old female patient who had presented with skin lesions on her thigh since 4 years ago has been reported. The lesions were two oval plaques consisted of multiple brown- tinted, hyperkereratotic papu...

BACKGROUND As the incidence of HIV infection has increased its neurological complications are being encountered in our clinical practice. Toxoplasmosis is a common cerebral opportunistic infection seen in HIV-infected patients, even though the incidence has declined with the use of antiretroviral therapy. Establishing a definitive diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis is difficult in resource lim...

BACKGROUND In this study a multiscore analysis of various biomarkers including matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), inflammatory factors and other clinical parameters was performed to establish a set of reliable biomarkers for improved detection of plaque instability in patients with advanced carotid stenosis. METHODS Study patients (n = 101) were classified as histologically stable (n = 37) or ...

recmr ln com^ined with sulphadiazine found the pati*ate ^3 Per cen^these s they noted as neurological sequelae 4 cases of brain damage giving rise to hydrocephalus, mental impairment and paralysis. These were all infants under 1 year. There were 4 other cases of deafness, partial or completeOne of us (Konar 1950) reported 3 cases of pneumococcal meningitis where neck rigidity and Kernig's sign ...