Erythema Nodosum with Acute Tuberculous Lymphadenitis

Acute myeloblastic leukaemia presenting with erythema nodosum.

Acute necrotizing lepromatous lymphadenitis: an erythema-nodosum-leprosum-like reaction in lymph nodes.

Histological examination of lymph-node biopsy specimens in 12 patients with erythema nodosum leprosum showed almost complete replacement of the node by lepromatous granuloma, together with considerable polymorph infiltration. Ziehl-Neelsen staining demonstrated numerous Mycobacterium leprae present in the nodes. The majority of these patients were very ill, and responded to prednisolone or cort...

Acute myeloid leukemia presenting as erythema nodosum

Patient Concerns: A 58-year-old Chinese female was admitted for a 4-week history of painful cutaneous lesions, accompanied by a sternal pain and fever. The lesions once resolved spontaneously but then recurred. Physical examination revealed warm, tender, indurated, rounded, erythematous to violaceous nodules in bilateral lower extremities, ranging in diameter from 1 to 6cm. Blood marrow examina...

Erythema nodosum.

Erythema nodosum is the most frequent clinico-pathological variant of the panniculitides. The disorder is a cutaneous reaction consisting of inflammatory, tender, nodular lesions, usually located on the anterior aspects of the lower extremities. The process may be associated with a wide variety of diseases, being infections, sarcoidosis, rheumatologic diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, medi...

Erythema Nodosum

Erythema nodosum is the most common and, in its classic form, the most easily recognized cause of inflammatory nodules on the legs. It is characterized by inflammatory, tender, nonulcerating, nonscarring nodules that are typically multiple and bilateral. The rather characteristic clinical presentation can be attributable to one of many causes or associated with a wide spectrum of systemic disea...