Cutaneous lymphocytic vasculitis in acute myeloid leukaemia.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report a 63-year-old woman who presented with an 8-week history of widespread indurated, purpuric lesions associated with weight loss of 7 kg and several episodes of epistaxis. A skin biopsy demonstrated a lymphocytic vasculitis with haemorrhage and parakeratosis. A blood film and bone marrow examination showed features of a myelodysplastic syndrome in transformation to acute myeloid leukaemia. Leucocytoclastic vasculitis and polyarteritis nodosa occur in association with acute myeloid leukaemia, but the association with lymphocytic vasculitis is new.
Medical subject headings
- Leukemia, Myeloid
- Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- Skin Diseases, Vascular
- Vasculitis