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BACKGROUND: Psoriasis is a common and chronic T cell mediated skin disorder with varied clinico-morphological types. Most of the published studies have reported chronic plaque type psoriasis to be the commonest type. AIM: To find the incidence of palmoplantar psoriasis in a tertiary health care centre in South India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective study done over a period of six months recruiting the patients attending the Dermatology out-patient department in a tertiary health care centre. RESULTS: Incidence of palmoplantar psoriasis was found to be highest among all morphological forms of psoriasis. CONCLUSION: Incidence of palmoplantar psoriasis is under-expressed. It is actually ahead in the race.
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Lymphoblastic lymphoma(LBL) is non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with a high tendency of rapid progression to acute leukemia, but cutaneous infiltration is rare. Cutaneous lesions in LBL were largely red papules and nodules. We herein report a case of 24-year-old woman with T-cell LBL(TLBL) involving the skin. The lesions revealed 1~3 cm-sized, multiple confluent scaly patches on her face and back, and subsided about 4 weeks later during the period of follow-up and combination chemotherapy. Histologically there were perivascular, periadnexal and perineural infiltrates of medium-sized lymphoid cells in mid to deep dermis. The neoplastic cells had scant cytoplasm, very fine chromatin, and inconspicuous nucleoli and expressed CD5, CD45, CD45RO and TdT.
