Successful treatment of primary progressive follicular mucinosis with interferons.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Follicular mucinosis is a primary idiopathic disease or a secondary, lymphoma-associated dermatosis. An effective standard therapy for the benign group is unknown. We describe a patient with primary benign disseminated progressive follicular mucinosis who was successfully treated with recombinant interferon alfa-2b and interferon-gamma. Interferons might act by down-regulation of activated inflammatory cells and/or by induction of enhanced elimination of extracellular mucin via increasing phagocytosis by macrophages.
Medical subject headings
- Facial Dermatoses
- Interferon-alpha
- Interferon-gamma
- Mucinosis, Follicular