[Bullous localization of a lupus erythematosus induced by radiotherapy].

Introduction: Connective diseases induced or exacerbated by radiotherapy are not frequent. We report a particular erosive erythematosus lupus with lesions in the precise distribution of radiation therapy given for a breast cancer.

Observation: An 80 year-old woman presented with painful erosive skin lesions of her breast which had been treated by irradiation 9 years before.

[Chronic lymphocytic leukemia revealed by atypic pemphigus].

Background: Bullous diseases are occasionally reported during chronic lymphocytic leukemia. We report the case of a woman in which a bullous disease of difficult nosologic classification has revealed chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Case Report: A 57-year-old woman, well-known for a rheumatoid arthritis, developed a bullous eruption.

Comparative field evaluation of HIV rapid diagnostic assays using serum, urine, and oral mucosal transudate specimens.

Background: Comparative field utility of selected HIV-1 assays using homologous collections of serum, urine and oral mucosal transudate (OMT) was determined in adult populations from a tuberculosis hospital and STD clinic in Djibouti, East Africa.

Study Design: Enzyme immunoassay with confirmatory Western blot was performed on all serum specimens for comparison with rapid, instrument-free assays (SUDS HIV-1, Murex: TestPack HIV-1/2. Abbott; and COMBAIDS HIV 1 + 2, SPAN Diagnostics) using various specimen sources.

[Cutaneous metastatic Crohn disease. Apropos of a case].

The authors report the case of a 54-year old man suffering from facial papulonodular eruption. He has Crohn's disease which was diagnosed 36 years ago. There were no clinical symptoms of the disease when the cutaneous manifestations occurred.