This is a query I recently received. “The spots (they all have a hair coming out of the middle) pretty much stay there permanently. They […]
Articles by Bell Eapen
A recurrent vesicular eruption
This 4-year-old boy had a recurrent vesicular eruption on the sun exposed areas for three years. The eruption would heal with varioliform scarring. The boy’s […]
Hyper pigmentation in neonate
This 17 days old baby girl developed such mottled hyper pigmentation on face and rest of the body since last 2 days. There is no […]
Acute generalised exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP)
This patient presented to me with sudden onset of widespread non follicular pustules over his body. He did not give personal or family history of […]
Progressive Palmo Plantar Keratoderma of Greither
Today an old patient of mine came with his brother who had severe palmo plantar keratoderma since childhood which worsened after coming to Gulf. The […]
Polymorphous Light Eruption (PLE / PMLE)
Differentiation of PLE on pigmented skin from Actinic LP can be tricky without a biopsy as the second condition is also fairly common in India […]
Follicular Lesions
A 36 year old male patient with these unilateral follicular lesions of 4 months duration over the shin. What is your diagnosis? Looking for follicular […]
Ichthyosis Linearis Circumflexa (ILC) of Netherton Syndrome (NS)
This 4 year old female patient presented with history of congenital erythroderma (without Colloidal membrane), which was evident during the first weeks of life and […]
Lupus Vulgaris
This 18 yr girl was brought for asymptomatic lesion on left elbow since last 3 months.It was a small papule to begin with, then grew […]