ABSTRACT
Hassan district is noted for its rich diversity of plant species apart from wetlands to flood plains serving the habitat requirement of several inhabitant communities and is unique in its nature by having rich diversity of wild edible plants. A number of cultivated food plants having their wild relatives such as Black pepper, Cardamom, Cinnamon and Curcuma etc. are present in the district. The present survey encompasses documentation of 29 wild tuberous plant species belonging to 15 family and 24 genera tabulated with botanical name, local name, and family, habit and habitat, mode of consumption and medicinal uses of the same.
ABSTRACT
A 16 years old girl presented with low back pain, fever and weakness in both lower limbs for 3 months. Plain radiograph shows lytic lesion in first sacral vertebra and multiple lung nodules. In suspicion of tuberculosis, antitubercular drugs were advised. But magnetic resonance imaging revealed right paraspinal soft tissue mass with multiple lesions in several vertebrae causing spinal canal compression alongwith lesions in iliac bones, sacrum, lung parenchyma and scalp tissue. Fine needle aspiration cytology and biopsy revealed Ewing’s sarcoma. Patient was referred to higher centre for chemotherapy/radiotherapy. Herein we report this rare case of extraosseous Ewing’s sarcoma with disseminated metastases masquerading as Pott’s spine.