Dermatology
Patient Care
Outpatient services:
The department has an average outpatient attendance of about 960 patients per week with a wide variety of cases. Of these about 9% are leprosy patients.
Dermatology services are available at both
Karigiri (main hospital)- Monday to Friday (8;00 – 12:30)
Saturday (8:00 – 10:30)
PBIHC (Katpadi) Monday to Friday(8:00 – 10:30)
Both private consultations and general registrations are possible and advance booking is available for patients over the phone.
(call: 0416-2274229/2274203).
Inpatient services
Inpatient services continue at Karigiri base hospital, for both leprosy and general dermatology cases.
In addition to experienced personnel involved in the diagnostic and therapeutic work carried out by the department, we are ably supported by the laboratory facilities for biopsies, mouse footpad studies for leprosy, molecular biology techniques for drug resistance, and a well developed lab for microbiology, clinical biochemistry and clinical pathology.In addition , we also have the added advantage of being close to CMC, Vellore, and thus able to avail of ultra specialized investigations such as direct immunoflurescence, and tests for special antibodies.
We do cosmetic treatment for lesions such as moles, some types of birthmarks, warts, freckles, acne,acne scarring, keloids, post chicken pox scars and rosacea.
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Facilities:
Wehave the facilities for whole body phototherapy with UVA as well as narrow band UVB.There is also a facility for hand and foot Puva therapy easily accessible at our branch near Katpadi. The Department has a CO2 laser, a micromotor dermabrader, and facilities for cryosurgery, radiofrequency cautery, and electrocautery
Training
Postgraduate course:
The Department runs a postgraduate course under the National Board of Examination s. The Diplomate in National Board(DNB) in Dermatology was started in February 2002 under the aegis of Dr.Arundhati.There are four full time consultants and one part time consultant involved in training the students.