CUTANEOUS LYMPHOCYTIC VASCULITIS IN ACUTE MYELOID-LEUKEMIA

We report a 63-year-old woman who presented with an 8-week history of widespread indurated, purpuric lesions associated with weight loss of 7 kg and several episodes of epistaxis, A skin biopsy demonstrated a l ymphocytic vasculitis with haemorrhage and parakeratosis, A blood film and bone marrow examination showed features of a myelodysplastic synd rome in transformation to acute myeloid leukaemia, Leucocytoclastic va sculitis and polyarteritis nodosa occur in association with acute myel oid leukaemia, but the association with lymphocytic vasculitis is new.