LICHENOID ERUPTION FOLLOWING FOLD SODIUM PROPANOL SULFONATE THERAPY -AN AUTONOMOUS ERUPTION

Introduction. We report a severe lichenoid drug eruption due to gold s alts which relapsed 8 months after the cessation of chrysotherapy. Cas e report. A 56 year old man, 3 months after the beginning of a gold so dium propanol sulfonate therapy, developed a polymorphous eruption wit h violin papules on the trunk, eczematous lesions on the limbs and ero sive stomatitis. Gold salts were definitively withdrawn. We saw the pa tient four months after gold therapy cessation: the eruption remained and diagnosis of severe drug cutaneo-mucous lichenoid eruption was don e. We saw thereafter the patient again, 8 months after gold therapy ce ssation: the eruption had relapsed, more intense. Discussion. We sugge st that lichenoid eruption, first caused by gold salts, has become aut onomous.