Telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans, a form of cutaneous mastocytosis, associated with malignant melanoma.

A 62-year-old obese woman presented with a malignant melanoma (Stage la). In addition, she had disseminated telangiectatic macules on both thighs. Intensive rubbing of lesions resulted in wheals.

Chronic graft-versus-host-disease-like dermopathy in a child with CD4+ cell microchimerism.

We report the case of an 11-year-old boy suffering from a severe progressive chronic skin disease with clinical features of progressive systemic scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus and dermatomyositis. Skin biopsies revealed fibrosis and lichenoid changes and muscle biopsy a myositis. Immunohistology of the skin showed a lichen-ruber-like pattern.