[Lichenoid eruption induced by gold salts. An autonomous eruption].
BACKGROUND
We report a severe lichenoid drug eruption due to gold salts which relapsed 8 months after the cessation of chrysotherapy.


METHODS
A 56 year old man, 3 months after the beginning of a gold sodium propanol sulfonate therapy, developed a polymorphous eruption with violin papules on the trunk, eczematous lesions on the limbs and erosive stomatitis. Gold salts were definitively withdrawn. We saw the patient four months after gold therapy cessation: the eruption remained and diagnosis of severe drug cutaneo-mucous lichenoid eruption was done. We saw thereafter the patient again, 8 months after gold therapy cessation: the eruption had relapsed, more intense.


CONCLUSIONS
We suggest that lichenoid eruption, first caused by gold salts, has become autonomous.
Alzieu
P H
PH
Clinique Dermatologique, CHU Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes.
Amoric
J C
JC
Bureau
B
B
Remond
L
L
Milpied
B
B
Stalder
J F
JF
Litoux
P
P
D018501:Antirheumatic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000188:drug therapy; D001415:Back; D006801:Humans; D017512:Lichenoid Eruptions / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D050607:Organogold Compounds; D012008:Recurrence; D012536:Scalp Dermatoses / Q000139:chemically induced; D013280:Stomatitis / Q000139:chemically induced
D018501:Antirheumatic Agents; D050607:Organogold Compounds
Toxidermie lichenoïde induite par les sels d'or. Autonomisation d'une éruption.