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Sarcoma de Kaposi por dosis altas de esteroides
Kaposi´s sarcoma due to high dose of steroids

Medisan; 20 (8), 2016
Se describe el caso clínico de una paciente de 42 años de edad, quien necesitó tratamiento reiterado con prednisona y a partir de entonces comenzó a presentar lesiones cutáneas en ambas piernas. Luego de ser valorada por especialistas en reumatología y dermatología fue remitida al Servicio de Angi...

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis associated with spider bite

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is an acute febrile rash, usually induced by drugs, which recently has been linked to spider bite. We report a case of a male patient, 48 years old, with an erythematous rash accompanied by fever and small non-follicular pustules. He reported pr...

Eosinophilic annular erythema in childhood - Case report

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: Eosinophilic annular erythema is a rare, benign, recurrent disease, clinically characterized by persistent, annular, erythematous lesions, revealing histopathologically perivascular infiltrates with abundant eosinophils. This report describes an unusual case of eosinophilic annular erythema in ...

Primary cutaneous plasmablastic lymphoma revealing clinically unsuspected HIV infection

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: Plasmablastic lymphoma is a rare subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma more frequently diagnosed in immunosuppressed patients, mainly HIV-infected. Primary cutaneous plasmablastic lymphoma is extremely rare, and in this patient it was the first clinical manifestation of unsuspected HIV-infec...

Case for diagnosis. Metastatic Crohn's disease

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: Metastatic Crohn's disease is a rare skin manifestation, defined by granulomatous skin lesions that are discontinuous to the affected gastrointestinal tract and histopathologically resembling inflammatory bowel lesions. Up to 44% of patients with Crohn's disease have cutaneous manifestations, o...

Link between immunoexpression of hMLH1 and hMSH2 proteins and clinical-epidemiological aspects of actinic cheilitis

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: Background: The studies found in the literature associate the immunoexpression of hMLH1 and hMSH2 proteins with histologic aspects, but do not correlate it with clinical and epidemiological data. Objective: To evaluate the immunoexpression of hMLH1 and hMSH2 in actinic cheilitis, correlating ...

Lichen sclerosus associated with localized scleroderma: dermoscopy contribution

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: Lichen sclerosus is an uncommon inflammatory dermatosis with preferential involvement of the urogenital region. The extragenital involvement is uncommon and is characterized by small rounded macules or papules, pearly white in color. The coexistence of lichen sclerosus and scleroderma plaques i...

Porphyria cutanea tarda in a HIV- positive patient

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: This is a case report about Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) and its relationship with the infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Cutaneous porphyria is an illness caused by enzymatic modification that results in partial deficiency of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (Urod), whi...

Rheumatoid arthritis and pseudo-vesicular skin plaques: rheumatoid neutrophilic dermatosis

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (4), 2016
Abstract: A 54 year-old woman with a 3-year history of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) consulted us because of weight loss, fever and skin eruption. On physical examination, erythematous plaques with a pseudo-vesicular appearance were seen on the back of both shoulders. Histological examination was consistent ...