title: Erythema gyratum repens: a paraneoplastic eruption.
abstract: Erythema gyratum reopens is a slowly expanding, mildly scaling dermatosis with a "wood-grain" pattern and is seen in patients with an underlying malignancy. To date only 49 cases have appeared in the literature, 41 of which (84%) were associated with a neoplasm, most commonly of the lung. Several patients also had pruritus, palmoplantar keratoderma, ichthyosis, vesiculobullous lesions, and/or eosinophilia. Histopathologic findings are nonspecific. The skin findings usually disappear with therapy for the underlying malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Neldner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Menter
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004890:Erythema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology