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Journal of Case Reports
A Young Bangladeshi Male with Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
Rajat Sanker Roy Biswas, Md. Habib Khan1
From the Department of  Medicine, Chattagram International Dental College and Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh and Department of Anatomy1, BGC Trust  Medical College , Chittagong,  Bangladesh.
Corresponding Author:
Dr. Rajat Sanker Roy Biswas
Email: rajatbiswas76@yahoo.com
Received: 16 MAY 2013 Accepted: 22-MAY-2013 Published Online: 10-AUG-2013
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17659/01.2013.0061
Abstract
Porpyhria cutanea tarda is an uncommon disease of Bangladesh. Confirmatory diagnosis by biochemical analysis is hardly available here.  An Asian, Bangladeshi,  30 year old, normotensive, nondiabetic male, presented with  the complaints of frequent development of blisters containing clear fluid over the sun exposed areas of the body. Blisters healed by scarring and pigmentation. The patient also had complaints of photosensitivity, sclerodermatous skin changes and hypertrichosis. Urine examination under Wood’s lamp showed coral red color suggesting porphyria cutanea tarda.
Keywords : PorpyhriaCutaneaTarda, Hypertrichosis, Hirsutism, Skin Diseases, Bangladesh.
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