Rare Clinical Presentation (rare + clinical_presentation)

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Selected Abstracts


Simultaneous medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland and Hodgkin's lymphoma in bilateral lymph nodes of the neck: A potential pitfall in fine-needle aspiration cytology

DIAGNOSTIC CYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 4 2004
Jesús Acosta-Ortega M.D.
Abstract The clinicopathological features and the cytological findings of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) and medullary carcinoma (MC) of the thyroid gland are described appearing simultaneously in different organs of the cervical region of the same patient. Although the cytological features of both entities are well known, the rare clinical presentation and the epithelium-like Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells of the syncytial variant of HL led to an erroneous cytological diagnosis of metastatic carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2004;31:255,258. © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Intertriginous lymphomatoid drug eruption

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 10 2010
Ronni Wolf MD
A 76-year-old man developed a maculopapular purpuric eruption confined to the intertriginous areas (i.e. the inguinal, gluteal, and axillary folds). Two days before the eruption appeared, he had received a second course of chemotherapy consisting of cisplatinum 40 mg and gemcitabine (Gemzar) 1700 mg for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung stage III B. The histologic picture was of either lymphomatoid drug eruption or lymphomatoid papulosis. The antineoplastic therapy was changed to once-weekly intravenous vinorelbine (Navelbine) 50 mg, a Vinca alkaloid, and the eruption resolved completely within two weeks without any further therapy. These circumstantial evidences support the diagnosis of intertriginous drug eruption. Our case is interesting and unusual in that it demonstrated a rare clinical presentation of drug eruption, namely, intertriginous drug eruption or baboon syndrome, with a histologic picture of a lymphomatoid drug eruption that can mimic lymphoma. We are unaware of any earlier reported case of baboon syndrome with a histologic picture of lymphomatoid drug eruption. The pathomechanisms of both types of drug eruption, i.e. baboon syndrome and lymphomatoid drug eruption, are not fully understood. [source]


An Unusual Case of Congenital Linear Eccrine Spiradenoma

PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY, Issue 2 2009
Marina Rodríguez-Martín M.D., Ph.D.
Typically, it presents as a painful, slow growing and solitary nodule on the head or upper trunk in adult patients. We report a child with linear ES which presented with asymptomatic papulonodular lesions in a blaschkoid distribution on the face. Cases reported in the literature of multiple spiradenomas are very rare and multiple linear lesions are even rarer. To date, 21 cases of linear/multiple ES have been reported. Of these, eight were in children or adolescents. We report an additional case of this rare clinical presentation and review the literature. [source]


Dapsone-induced photosensitivity: a rare clinical presentation

PHOTODERMATOLOGY, PHOTOIMMUNOLOGY & PHOTOMEDICINE, Issue 5 2008
Bikash Ranjan Kar
Dapsone is an efficient anti-inflammatory and antimycobacterial agent. It is one of the main constituents of multidrug therapy (MDT). It acts by interference with folate metabolism. Dapsone-induced photosensitivity is a rare, non-dose-related adverse effect of the sulfone and can occur in patients with inflammatory skin disorders treated with dapsone. So far, only 12 cases seem to have been reported in the literature. We report a case of dapsone-induced photosensitivity in an Indian patient with leprosy. [source]