Malignant atrophic papulosis (Degos' disease)--diffuse involvement of brain and bowel in an African patient.
We report pathognomonic skin lesions of malignant atrophic papulosis, accompanied by lethal central nervous system and gastrointestinal disease in a 22-year-old black man. Histopathological studies of the brain and colon showed areas of infarction and an underlying vasculitis with leukocytoclasis.
Barlow
R J
RJ
Medical University of Southern Africa, Pretoria.
Heyl
T
T
Simson
I W
IW
Schulz
E J
EJ
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D003106:Colon / Q000473:pathology; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*