BACKGROUND Lupus erythematosus tumidus (LET) is characterized clinically by erythematous, succulent, edematous, nonscarring plaques in sun-exposed areas. Results of histological examination show perivascular and periadnexal lymphocytic infiltration and interstitial mucin deposition. The main differential diagnoses are polymorphous light eruption, Jessner's lymphocytic infiltration of the skin, ...

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effects in bee-venom-treated patients and in those with rapid dose increase. Methods: This report describes the first case of a patient in the literature with Jessner’s Lymphocytic infiltration as a side effect of venom immunotherapy. This is a chronic, benign, T cell pseudolymphoma characterized by the occurrence of recurrent, asymptomatic, smooth, erythematous, non-scaling papules or plaques....

OBJECTIVE to characterize the exocrine and non-exocrine clinical disease manifestations of 74 patients with primary Sjögren's Syndrome (pSS). METHODS retrospective study of pSS patients according to the new 2002 American-European criteria, followed in the Hospital Santa Maria, Rheumatology Outpatient Clinics, in the last 25 years (mean follow-up of 7.7 years). RESULTS all patients presented...

Lymphoproliferative disorders are rarely observed as primary lesions in the lung, representing only 0.3% of all primary pulmonary malignancies, ,1% of all the cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and 3–4% of all the extra nodal manifestations of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The earliest comprehensive studies of pulmonary lymphomas were those of SALTZSTEIN [1] and PAPIOANNOU and WATSON [2], which were publish...

CHEST, VOL. 61, NO. 5, MAY 1972 ulcerations of the larynx. Recently, Caillard et al described a 34-year-old man who, after three years of chemotherapy for chronic Iymphocytic leukemia, developed a subglottic lymphomatous infiltrate. The tumor rapidly shrank in response to local radiotherapy. Localized lymphomas at this site are a!so rare. In 5,319 consecutive patients with malignant lymphoma se...

Clonality testing in lymphoid malignancies has become technically relatively easy to perform in routine laboratories using standardized multiplex polymerase chain reaction protocols for Ig/T-cell receptor (TCR) gene analysis. Expertise with clonality diagnostics and knowledge about the biology of Ig/TCR recombination are essential for correct interpretation of the Ig/TCR clonality data. Several...

We report a pediatric patient who presented with hypogonadism and diabetes insipidus. Further evaluation revealed hypothyroidism. MRI of the brain revealed a suprasellar mass. Following frontal craniotomy for mass biopsy, histological analysis of the mass revealed benign lymphoid hyperplasia. The patient has had no progression of his mass or symptoms at most recent follow-up (10 months). We rev...

Risk of adult lymphoid malignancy is associated with recent adiposity. Some have reported apparent associations with adiposity in childhood or early adulthood, but whether these associations are independent of recent adiposity is unknown. Birth weight, body size at age 10 years, clothes size at age 20 years, and recent body mass index (BMI) were recorded in 745,273 UK women, mean age 60.1 (SD 4...