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Deepika Pandhi

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Congenital erythropoietic porphyria complicated by squamous cell carcinoma.

We report two sisters, ages 12 and 8 years, with the characteristic clinical and biochemical profile of congenital erythropoietic porphyria (CEP). The disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive. The elder sibling had squamous cell carcinoma arising from the stump of the amputated left arm with metastases to lymph nodes, adrenals, and bone. To our knowledge, this feature has not been described in the English language literature, making our patient the first documented report of CEP with squamous cell carcinoma.

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Multifocal scrofuloderma with disseminated tuberculosis in a severely malnourished child.

Tuberculosis and malnutrition continue to be significant health problems in developing countries. Moderate to severe malnutrition can cause immunosuppression and predispose children to various infections. We report disseminated tuberculosis in a severely malnourished Indian child who presented primarily with cutaneous involvement.

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Cutaneous tuberculosis and phlyctenular keratoconjunctivitis: a forgotten association.

Cutaneous tuberculosis may be associated with concurrent systemic foci in the body such as lung, lymph node, bone or CNS. Phlyctenular keratoconjunctivitis (PKC) is a manifestation of immunological response to a variety of antigens in the eye, tubercular focus (evident or occult) being the commonest in India. Reports in the existing literature have shown lungs and lymph nodes to be the predominant underlying focus associated with PKC, whereas cutaneous tuberculosis has seldom been found in this situation. We report this forgotten association in two children with cutaneous tuberculosis, one each with lupus vulgaris and scrofuloderma, who also had PKC. Interestingly, one of the cases also had simultaneous lichen scrofulosorum, which is also an immunological response to tubercular antigen and manifests in the skin, thus showing immunological manifestation in two different organ systems along with cutaneous focus of tuberculosis.

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