Myelogenous leukemia cutis resembling stasis dermatitis.
Leukemia cutis may clinically mimic many inflammatory dermatoses. A patient with myelodysplastic syndrome presented with an acute eruption of bilateral, lower-extremity, tender, indurated, brown plaques that clinically resembled chronic stasis dermatitis. Histologic study revealed a dermal myeloblastic leukemic infiltrate.
Chang
Howard Y
HY
Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Wong
Kerry M
KM
Bosenberg
Marcus
M
McKee
Phillip H
PH
Haynes
Harley A
HA
D003872:Dermatitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000473:pathology