Transient acantholytic dermatosis associated with lymphomatous angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy

Acta Derm Venereol. 1989;69(5):445-8.

Abstract

Transient acantholytic dermatosis is a papulovesicular cutaneous eruption first described in 1970. There have been subsequent reports of similar disorders occurring in patients with malignancy. Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia is a disorder characterized by an acute onset of generalized lymphadenopathy associated with fever, malaise, pruritus, night sweats, and hepatosplenomegaly. The patient described had a papular acantholytic dermatosis associated with the development of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia-like T-cell lymphoma. The cutaneous manifestations of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia are discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acantholysis / complications*
  • Acantholysis / pathology
  • Aged
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunoblastic Lymphadenopathy / complications*
  • Immunoblastic Lymphadenopathy / pathology
  • Lymphoma / complications*
  • Lymphoma / pathology
  • Skin Diseases / complications*
  • T-Lymphocytes*