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C Ramanan

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Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a patient of acute renal failure.

Mucormycosis is the name for invasive fungal infection caused by mucorales. The disease is uncommon and produces serious and rapidly fatal infection in patients with serious pre-existing illness. The classical presentation of rhinocerebral mucormycosis is involvement of nasal mucosa with invasion of paranasal sinuses and orbit. We report a case of mucormycosis in an otherwise healthy female who had developed acute renal failure following gastroenteritis.

Acute Kidney Injury↗

Verrucoid cutaneous rhinosporidiosis.

Verruca vulgaris like lesions of cutaneous rhinosporidiosis are reported in a middle aged Indian male. He also had nasal rhinosporidiosis. Imprint smears from skin lesions showed sporangia with endospores, confirming the diagnosis.

Adult↗

Buffalopox.

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Adult↗

Preventing dental caries.

Since most children do not see a dentist until age three, family physicians have the opportunity to initiate proper dental care and thus reduce the incidence of dental caries. In addition to oral hygiene and dietary modification, optimal fluoride ingestion in the first few years of life produces lifelong resistance to dental caries. Knowledge of the pathology of dental caries and use of appropriate fluoride dosages enables the family physician to apply a highly effective preventive regimen in daily practice.

Child↗