TY - JOUR
AU - CLAYTON, R.J.
AB - Clinical and Experimental Dermatology (1984) 9, 190-195. Lymphomatoid papulosis progressing to immunoblastic lymphoma W.F.G.TUCKER,* J.N.LEONARD,* N.SMITH4 C.COULTER,f B.WOODS§ AND R.J.CLAYTON* * Department of Dermatology and -[Radiotherapy Department, St Mary's Hospital, London, ^Skin Tumour Unit, St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London, and ^Department of Dermatology, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City , Accepted for publication 11 March 1983 History A 56-year-old male Caucasian presented in September 1979 with a 6-year history of a recurrent skin eruption consisting of crops of erythematous macules and papules which evolved over several days to become scaly or necrotic and crusted. They resolved to leave hypopigmented scars. The clinical diagnosis was pityriasis lichenoides chronica, but skin biopsies, showing dense dermal infiltrates of atypical lymphoid cells, were consistent with lymphomatoid papulosis. The patient remained well until mid-1980 when he became tired, listless and anorexic. In August 1980 he noticed a firm, tender swelling in the left axilla. Examination There was a firm, fixed mass of nodes in the left axilla, but no other lymphadenopathy. The liver and spleen were not palpable. Three types of skin lesion were present: small macules on the abdomen and thighs topped by an adherent mica scale typical 
TI - Lymphomatoid papulosis progressing to immunoblastic lymphoma
JF - Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1984.tb00782.x
DA - 1984-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/lymphomatoid-papulosis-progressing-to-immunoblastic-lymphoma-mtugpAc0lx
SP - 190
EP - 195
VL - 9
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -