Thirty patients suspected of contact dermatitis of footwear studied to evaluate various clinical presentations and possible sensitizers. 'V' chappals and sandals were suspected alone in 12, a combination of open and closed shoes in 15 and closed shoes alone in 3 patients. Commonest affected sites were dorsa of feet and toes in 14 and dorsa of feet corresponding to the shape of footwear in 12 patients. Patch tests were done using a battery of sixteen allergens. Positive patch tests were seen in 29 patients. Rubber chemicals were the commonest allergens detected in 26 patients, dyes in 10, leather in 6, glues and neoprene cements in 4 and rubber material from suspected footwear as such in 4 patients respectively.

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A clinico-mycological analysis of 68 consecutive clinically diagnosed tinea capitis patients confirmed that the disease affects more commonly prepubertal children of either sex. Salient clinical features in order of frequency included patchy hair loss, scaly patches, black dots and inflammatory lesions with erythema, vesiculation and boggy swelling. Scaly type (36.9%) was the most commonly encountered clinical pattern followed by black dot (33.8%) and kerion (29.3%). Direct microscopic examinatin of the affected hair with 20% KOH revealed evidence of fungus in all patients with endothrix (58.8%) being the common pattern noted. The rate of culture positivity of the aetiologic fungus grown on Sabouraud's dextrose agar medium was 82.3%. T. violaceum (66.2%) was the most frequently isolated fungus accounting for both inflammatory as well as non-inflammatory lesions.

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A 40 year old woman developed a cutaneous horn following the excision of a lesion of lichen planus on the left lower leg. Biopsy confirmed the presence of lichen planus at the base of the horn. Excision of the horn was curative.

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The study was undertaken to compare the pre-menstrual and post-menstrual profile of women with adolescent acne. The non-inflammatory and inflammatory acne lesions in thirty two women patients with adolescent acne were counted at weekly intervals over a total of 96 menstrual periods. The mean of the acne lesions in the pre-menstrual phase was compared with that in the post-menstrual phase. In 67.71% of the periods observed, there was a decrease in the noninflammatory acne lesions. There was a mean reduction in the non-inflammatory and inflammatory lesions count of 2.30±4.89 and 3.69±2.92 respectively and this reduction was statistically highly significant (p<0.0001). These findings corroborate the general notice that there is an improvement of acne in the post-menstrual phase.

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A 36-year old female of grandmal epilepsy receiving phenytoin for 8 years presented with generalized asymptomatic polymorphic eruption, constitutional symptoms, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly of 15 days duration. The patient was diagnosed as pseudolymphoma syndrome and confirmed by histopathology.

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A new case of progressive cardiomyopathic lentigenosis is presented. The major feature of this patient are cutaneous abnormality, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cephalofacial dysmorphism, short stature and recurrent epistaxis.

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A 35-years-old man presented with the classical features of relapsing polychondritis, namely bilateral auricular chondritis, iridocyclitis, episcleritis, rhintis and polyarthralgia with typical histological features. Patient was treated with dapsone without any benefit and short course of steroids caused regression of the condition.

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In a school survey in Varanasi city, 12481 children were examined. More than half (54%) had one or more skin diseases. The commonest ones were peduculosis capitis (35%), pityriasis alba (12%) acne vulgaris (8%), miliaria (4%) and pyodermas (3%)

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Irritant quality of six commonly used detergents was tested by Kligman and Wooding's technique. The detergents in increasing order of irritant quality were Surf, Sunlight, Nirma, Ekta, Fena and Wheel.

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A new animal model is developed using dog's muzzle to demonstrate progressive depigmentation after birth. Dog's muzzle is heavily pigmented with pigment melanin and looks black in colour. Progressive depigmentation was observed two months after birth in pup born with a depigmented mucous membrance of the mouth and lips. This resembles the vitiligo of humans.

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Multifocal squamous cell carcinoma arose from one of the plaques of porokeratosis just above the right ankle in a 35-year-old female. Histopathological examination from the plaque and the ulcer confirmed the diagnosis of porokeratosis and squamous cell carcinoma. The multifocal origin of the squamous cell carcinoma and its location on a traumatic site are rare.

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A 10-year-old girl having syringocystadenoma papilliferum lesions on back is described. The entire lesions were excised and skin grafting was done.

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Ocular changes were studied in sixty patients treated with PUVASOL at six months interval. Trioxelen, psoralen and 8 MOP in 3 groups of twenty patients each were given for eighteen months. Photo adduct formation of cornea and lens were noticed after six months of therapy. Reversible visual acuity changes were seen at each visit. Fundus showed dull macular degeneration with psorelens and 8 MOP in patients above thirty years of age.

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