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Transient acantholytic dermatosis is often associated with excessive sweating, fever, and bed confinement. The pathogenesis of this disease has been postulated to be poral occlusion of damaged eccrine intraepidermal ducts. Histological and immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies were
Paraneoplastic pemphigus (PNP), a clinically and immunopathologically distinct mucocutaneous blistering dermatosis, is a severe form of autoimmune multiorgan syndrome generally associated with poor therapeutic outcome and high mortality. This IgG-mediated disease is initiated by an obvious or occult
Four cases of a Grover's-like disease in patients with leukemia/lymphoma, who underwent high-dose chemotherapy and either allogeneic/autologous bone marrow transplantation or autologous stem cell infusion, are described. Three of four patients had fever prior to the onset of their rash. In addition
A 71-year-old man was admitted to the Wake Forest University/Baptist Hospital Medical Center on February 1, 1989, with pharyngitis and a cutaneous eruption that began that day. The past history was significant for a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) made in 1984, and for longstanding
Dear Editor, It is not unusual for patients with renal insufficiency to develop skin pathologies. There are reports in the literature of increased incidence of calciphylaxis, pruritus, perforating dermatoses, and porphyria cutanea tarda in this patient population (1). Although it is quite rare,
Three selected cases of transient acantholytic dermatosis were studied because of their definitive correlation with sweating due to fever and/ or bed-ridden situations. Biopsy specimens were serially sectioned and acantholysis was found in the acrosyringium or traced to connect to the acrosyringium