PITYRIASIS-RUBRA-PILARIS, LICHEN-PLANUS, ALOPECIA-UNIVERSALIS AND VITILIGO IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC VIRAL-HEPATITIS-C

Authors
CECCHI R GIOMI A TUCI F BARTOLI L SEGHIERI G
Citation
R. Cecchi et al., PITYRIASIS-RUBRA-PILARIS, LICHEN-PLANUS, ALOPECIA-UNIVERSALIS AND VITILIGO IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC VIRAL-HEPATITIS-C, Dermatology, 188(3), 1994, pp. 239-240
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
10188665
Volume
188
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
239 - 240
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-8665(1994)188:3<239:PLAAV>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
A 43-year-old man, affected with alopecia universalis and vitiligo sin ce his childhood, developed erythrodermic pityriasis rubra pilaris fol lowed then by lichen planus; chronic viral hepatitis C was diagnosed. This appears to be a unique constellation of cutaneous diseases implyi ng both autoimmunity and hepatitis C virus.