Two cases of mucosa associated lymphoma (pseudolymphoma) of the lung are described which highlight the varied clinical and radiological features of this rare pulmonary condition. Following chemotherapy with prednisolone and chlorambucil, both patients are disease free three years later.

Anticonvulsants have long been recognized as a cause of hypersensitivity reactions. Phenytoin hypersensitivity can be traced to 1916, when phenylethylhydantoin (phenytoin sodium), which was used to treat children with Sydenham chorea, was found to induce a hypersensitivity reaction. Phenytoin was then known as a “nerve sedative,” and the hypersensitivity reaction, “nirvanol sickness,” resolved ...

Pseudolymphoma is a nonspecific disease characterized by lesions with lymphomatous-appearing but benign accumulation of inflammatory cells. They generally present as small ulcero-nodular lesions confined to skin which often respond to local therapies. We describe an unusual presentation of an extensive and locally aggressive cutaneous pseudolymphoma in a 21-year-old male patient who presented w...

Tattooing has become more and more popular in today's society. The most common dermatological tattoo complications are represented by hypersensitivity reaction to tattoo pigments like irritant and allergical contact dermatitis, development of lichenoid areas and granulomatous responses, such as sarcoid granulomas or foreign body granulomas. Less frequently patients developing discoid lupus eryt...

Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome is a systemic illness that presents most commonly as a triad of fever, rash, and lymphadenopathy in a patient exposed to one or more of the aromatic antiepileptic drugs (phenytoin, phenobarbital, and carbamazepine). Although generally self-limited, the syndrome may be life-threatening, particularly among patients who develop severe cutaneous eruptions or...