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Year : 2014 | Volume
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Remarks regarding case reports "Molluscum contagiosum: Study of four cases" and "Histoid leprosy in type II reaction with neural abscess: Treated with ulnar nerve decompression and anterior transposition". In vol. 7, issue 3 of Med J Dr. D. Y. Patil University
Yugal Kishore Sharma, Kedar Nath Dash
Department of Dermatology, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College and Hospital, Pimpri, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Date of Web Publication | 10-Sep-2014 |
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-2870.140505
How to cite this article: Sharma YK, Dash KN. Remarks regarding case reports "Molluscum contagiosum: Study of four cases" and "Histoid leprosy in type II reaction with neural abscess: Treated with ulnar nerve decompression and anterior transposition". In vol. 7, issue 3 of Med J Dr. D. Y. Patil University. Med J DY Patil Univ 2014;7:689-90 |
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Sir,
We went through the two case reports regarding the common dermatological entities in the May-June issue of your esteemed journal with great interest. [1],[2] We would like to point out few rare "factual" errors as well as certain spelling mistakes, which could possibly have inadvertently crept in as printer's devils.
The statement in the second paragraph of introduction, "Clinically, it usually presents with single or multiple, pale, waxy, and umbilicated nodule on eyelid margins," in the article [1] may mislead the beginners to believe that the disease is primarily "occulocentric," eyelid margins do develop molluscum contagiosum, but are not its "usual" location; the typical sites being axilla, inguinal area, and neck. [3] Moreover, the introduction ends rather abruptly with the statement "Poor living conditions also warrant the discussion of another common entity," without elaborating the same entity.
A few spelling mistakes that seem to have crept into the second article include "Seghal" (for Sehgal) in the last paragraph of introduction in the article and "epitheloid" (for epithelioid) in the second last paragraph of discussion. The last sentence of the penultimate paragraph tries to incorporate therapies of three types (range of motion, monthly range of movement followed by World Health Organization multi bacillary-multi-drug therapy), but does not convey appropriate meaning, probably because some line may have escaped printing.
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1. | Srikanth S, Anandam G, Kumari BS, Sreelatha K, Suhela R. Molluscum contagiosum: Study of four cases. Med J D Y Patil Univ 2014;7:366-8. |
2. | Patvekar MA, Dev S, Rizvi A, Malhotra R. Histoid leprosy in type II reaction with neural abscess: Treated with ulnar nerve decompression and anterior transposition. Med J D Y Patil Univ 2014;7:392-5. |
3. | Piggott C, Friedlander SF, Tom W. Poxvirus infections. In: Goldsmit LA, Katz SI, Gilchrest BA, Paller AS, Lefell DJ, Wolff K, editors. Fitzpatrick′s Dermatology in General Medicine. 8 th ed. New York: McGraw Hill; 2012. p. 2417-20. |
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