Skin involvement in hemopathies: specific cutaneous manifestations of acute nonlymphoid leukemias and non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
The course of a hemopathy may be characterized by the appearance of cutaneous lesions. In such cases a correct histological investigation is needed, especially when the lesions have an aspecific appearance. It is important, therefore, to recognize the cases characterized by cutaneous involvement of typical systemic disease cells. Lymphomas and leukemias are the hemopathies which more frequently present specific and nonspecific cutaneous manifestations (with an approximate incidence of 3-40 and 6-50%, respectively). In the period 1977-1983 we examined 337 patients affected with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia and 243 patients affected with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, in order to verify the incidence of specific cutaneous manifestations.
D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000473:pathology*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*