Contents

 All Articles are in PDF format

Editorial

 

Ethnic dermatology                                                                                                                        1

Arfan ul Bari

 

Original articles

 

Rifampicin in cutaneous leishmaniasis – a therapeutic trial in Saudi Arabia                                 4

Huma Jaffar

 

Bone mineral density in patients with pemphigus vulgaris on steroid therapy                            10

Zahida Rani, Mohammad Saleem Khan, Abdul Hameed, Ijaz Hussain, Atif Hasnain Kazmi

 

Honey compared with 1% silver sulfadiazine cream in the treatment of superficial and partial thickness burns          14

Asher Ahmed Mashhood. Tahir Ahmed Khan, Ahmed Nurus Sami

 

Assessment of hypothyroidism in alopecia                                                                          20

Iftikhar Ahmed, Hasan Ali, Muhammad Sarwar, Khursheed Hasan Alvi

Review articles

 

Chronology of cutaneous leishmaniasis: An overview of the history of the disease         24

Arfan ul Bari

 

Dermatological adverse drug reactions due to systemic medications – a  review of literature      28

AK Dubey, S. Prabhu, PR Shankar, P Subish, MM. Prabhu, P Mishra

 

Comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention: focus on youth under threat                                39

Hamzullah Khan, Laetitia J King, Akber Khan Afridi

 

Case reports

 

Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis of Ofuji in an immunocompetent (non-HIV) Pakistani patient Maffucci’s syndrome:

a case report                                                                                                                          46

Ikram-Ullah Khan, Saima Rafiq

 

Basal cell carcinoma involving the skin of breast – a rare site                                            49

Amer Ejaz, Aurangzeb, Zaheer Iqbal Awan, Hussain Bux

 

Degos’ disease: a rare disorder                                                                                            52

Ikram-Ullah Khan, Saima Rafiq

 

Addison’s disease may present to a dermatologist as melasma                                        56

Arfan ul Bari, Tariq Mahmood

 

PhotoDermDiagnosis

 

A lichenified pruritic plaque                                                                                            60, 62

Shahbaz A. Janjua, Ian McColl, Jayakar Thomas

 

 

News                                                                                                                                    61