A PROBLEM TO TREAT - ANGIOLYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA WITH EOSINOPHILIA

A 35-year-old female patient suffered from angiolymphoid hyperplasia w ith eosinophilia for 9 years, with multiple, exophytic tumours on her left pinna and the surrounding skin. Systemic treatment with gamma int erferon and glucocorticoids, intralesional injections of glucocorticoi ds and argon laser therapy had no effect. After the tumours had been p ared away by electrocautery the patient was free of symptoms for 1 yea r and then developed a small local recurrence. Recurrences are common in angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. Malignant transformati on has not been observed. We therefore regard non-radical surgery as t he therapy of choice.