Cutaneous Waldenström's macroglobulinemia: report of a case and overview of the spectrum of cutaneous disease.
Specific infiltration of the skin is a rare complication of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia. Cutaneous disease may also develop as a direct result of paraproteinemia and paraprotein specific antiepidermal autoimmune disease. We report a patient with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia in whom cutaneous infiltration developed with a clonal population of lymphoplasmacytoid B cells, summarize previously reported cases, and review the spectrum of cutaneous disease associated with this hematologic malignancy.
Libow
L F
LF
Department of Dermatology, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Mawhinney
J P
JP
Bessinger
G T
GT
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013909:Thorax; D008258:Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology