CUTANEOUS PLASMACYTOSIS - REPORT OF A CASE IN A WHITE MAN

Citation
Jl. Lopezestebaranz et al., CUTANEOUS PLASMACYTOSIS - REPORT OF A CASE IN A WHITE MAN, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 31(5), 1994, pp. 897-900
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
ISSN journal
01909622
Volume
31
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Part
2
Supplement
S
Pages
897 - 900
Database
ISI
SICI code
0190-9622(1994)31:5<897:CP-ROA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We describe a 40-year-old white man with a peculiar skin eruption in a ssociation with polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia. No underlying disea se was detected. A skin biopsy specimen showed a proliferation of matu re plasma cells intermingled with some lymphocytes and histiocytes, an appearance consistent with cutaneous plasmacytosis. This disease had been previously described only in Japanese patients. In our patient th e disease progressed slowly. Lymph node infiltration by mature plasma cells was later noted.