Pigmented Basal Cell Carcinoma of Eyelid: A Case Report

Pigmented basal cell carcinoma is a rare cutaneous variant of BCC with very few cases reported. Exposure to sunlight is the most important environmental risk factor.Pigmented basal cell carcinoma is a very rare variant of basal cell carcinoma that exhibits increased pigmentation.As it is rare, thereby we report here the case of Pigmented basal cell carcinoma on eyelid. Key

Bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax in silicosis.

Occurrence of pneumothorax in silicosis is rare and when it occurs, pneumothorax is usually unilateral. We report here a patient with accelerated silicosis who presented with bilateral spontaneous pneumothoraces occurring simultaneously. The rarity of its clinical presentation in the form of bilateral simultaneous spontaneous pneumothorax combined with the typical clinical and radiological features of accelerated silicosis with tuberculosis make us to report this case.

AIDS IN JAMMU An Epidemiological Profile.

HIV seropositivity. in blood samples collected from AIDS suspect cases (ASC) and the anonymous unlinked high risk groups, was assessed by using two or three screening tests based on different principles for confirmation of the results. The HIV seropositivity was found to be high (9.4%) in the AIDS suspect cases and 0.9% in the unlinked anonymous high risk group of patients attending STD clinic, District Hospital, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.