Generalized Varicella in an Immunocompromised Patient.

A 16-year-old boy with Hodgkin's dease on MOPP regimen developed generalized varicella. He was treated with oral acyclovir with good results.

Acne Fulminans Treated with Oral Retinoids.

A 22 year old male patient suffering for 4 year from severe nodulo-cystic acne and scarring by systemic signs like fever, malaise, polyarthralgia, loss of; weight and leucocytosis was diagnosed as a case of acne fulminans. When there was no response to routine, treatment and even systemic corticosteroid, he-was treated - with a low dose of oral retinoid, isotretinoin. He improved dramatically within 2 weeks, and there was no relapse after 18 weeks follow - UP.

Blepharochalasis.

A 26 year old female developed laxity and wrinkling of the skin of both the upper eyelids for the last 5 years. This was preceded by 4 attacks of lid edema starting at the age of 16 years.

Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis.

A 55 year old male had papulo-nodular and plaque type lesions on upper eyelids, chest, neck and extremities. He hadjoint pains and abnormal lipid profile. The histiopathology showed typical picture of reticulohistiocytosis.

Cutaneous Endometriosis.

Cutaneous endometriosis is a well recognized but uncommon phenomenon. We observed a case of this condition occurring in an abdominal hysterectomy scar 6 months after the operation. The nodule developed pain once a month. Histopathology revealed glandular structures lined by a single layer of columnar cells. Surgical ecision resulted in cure of the condition.

Porokeratosis (Report of five Cases).

Five cases of porokeratosis are reported. Two of these were of the classical mibelli type,in one case only one segment of the limb was involved in a linear fashion, in the fourth case a linear lesion involved the entire left side of the body, and the fifth case was of the disseminated superficial type. Typical histopathological features were observed in porokeratosis of Mibelli and also in the case of disseminated superficial type. In one case short contact dithranol and isotretinoic acid treatment was successful.

Histopathological Study of Diffuse Idiopathic Melanoderma.

Histopathological study of clinically involved as well as normal skin in 30 cases of diffuse idiopathic melanoderma revealed increased melanin pigmentation of the basal in all the case, liquefactive degeneration,of basal cells in 20 cases, epidermal atrophy in l7 cases, melanophages in the, upper dermis 26 cases, and a perivascular or diffuse lympho-histiocytic infiltrate in 28 cases. There were distinct clinical and histopathplogical differences from lichen planus.

Papillon-lefevre Syndrome.

Five cases of Papillon-Lefevre syndrome occurring in 2 families were seen to have variable clinical features. Two of these cases treated with etretinate showed a good response.

Lymphangioma Circumscriptum.

Clinical features of six cases of lymphangioma circumscriptum are described.

Clinical Evaluation of Desoxymethasone - a new Corticosteroid.

In a double blind paired comparison study, the patients with steroid responsive dermatoses received desoxymethasone 0.25% on lesions on both sides of the body for first 4 days and desoxymethasone 0.25% on one side and 0.05% on the other side for the next 10 days. There was no significant difference in the percent reduction in severity scores of symptoms in global assessment or patient preference between the two treatments.