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Publications and source records attributed to M B Gharpuray.
Mudi-chood is an unusual dermatosis seen in India. It affects the nape of the neck and the exposed part of the upper back in girls and young women. It is characterized by mildly pruritic pigmented papular lesions. It probably represents the comedogenic activity of various oils applied to the hair, which is aggravated by the typical climatic conditions. We present three cases of mudi-chood.
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A 25-year-old male patient was diagnosed as a case of borderline lepromatous (BL) type of leprosy in erythema nodosum leprosum type reaction. He was put on multidrug treatment. He took regular treatment. Approximately a year after the beginning of the treatment he developed multiple cold abscesses and later tuberculosis of the left hip joint. He was given antitubercular treatment with 4 drugs and the abscesses were treated surgically. He showed good response. This unusual case and the role of intermittent rifampicin is discussed.
A newborn girl presented with a congenital localized absence of skin on both legs. At the age of eight months, blistering of the scalp, upper limbs, and oral mucous membranes occurred, which was nonscarring and recurrent. This case is reported because of its rarity.
Thirty eight patients of leprosy were classified on the basis of clinical and biopsy findings into 10 lepromatous (all reactional), 20 tuberculoid (7 in reaction) and 8 dimorphic (5 in reaction). The liver function tests--serum proteins, albumin/globulin ratio, fractions in paper electrophoresis, serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) and thymol turbidity tests--and the serum cholesterol was estimated in each patient. The abnormalities were a reversal of the albumin/globulin ratio in all the three groups and an increase in beta/globulin fraction in the lepromatous group, but total proteins were within normal limits. The thymol turbidity test showed moderately elevated levels in all three groups. SGPT was slightly raised in a few cases. Only a single patient with tuberculoid leprosy showed serum cholesterol to be over 250 mg per 100 ml.