Background: Primary cutaneous B-cell lymphomas (PCBCLs) are rare cutaneous neoplasms with limited literature regarding treatment options and associated treatment outcomes. This study aimed to investigate and present real-world treatment outcomes in patients with PCBCLs.
Methods: All patients with PCBCL who were treated in five major referral centers for cutaneous lymphoma in Greece over 10 years were retrospectively included with their baseline characteristics and treatment-associated outcomes collected and analyzed.
Background/aim: Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a well-known lymphoproliferative disease with very effective treatment approaches primarily relying on purine analogues. However, these treatments are associated with profound and prolonged immunosuppression. Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare and extremely aggressive skin tumor with an increased incidence in immunocompromised patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Wells syndrome or eosinophilic cellulitis is a rare and relapsing skin disease which lacks systemic involvement. A skin biopsy is needed to establish a diagnosis. Several precipitating factors have been proposed but no proven causative link has been found.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the uterine cervix is a rare clinical entity. The present case report describes an incidence of primary cervical follicular lymphoma, diagnosed during management of concurrent cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. The present case report outlines not only the necessity of adhering to guidelines regarding the management of abnormal cervical cytology, but also the importance of expert pathological review and the need for personalized management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Imatinib Mesylate (IM), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has been reported to cause several adverse reactions, most of them with cutaneous involvement. Non- Lichenoid IM associated skin reactions have been sufficiently- recorded. To our knowledge, Lichenoid Drug Eruption (LDE) is recorded in a minority of registries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chlormethine gel is a skin-directed therapy used for patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) that showed a favourable risk/benefit profile in a randomized clinical trial. Currently, data on chlormethine gel use in real-world settings are limited.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess safety and efficacy of chlormethine gel treatment in patients treated during daily clinical practice and investigate associations between response and disease stage, lesion type, mono- or combination therapy, and occurrence of dermatitis.
Introduction:: A severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread worldwide during 2020, was declared as a public health emergency and potentially life-threatening. Patients with hematologic malignancies may have an increased risk of severe COVID-19, due to immunosuppression related to the underlying disease and its treatment. In the absence of specific data, potential risk factors for severe events of COVID-19 should be considered as for other community acquired respiratory virus (CARV) infections: >60 years, severe immunodeficiency, chemotherapy treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol
February 2022
Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia (AFOP) is an entity that can be secondary to various conditions leading to lung injury, such as infections, malignancies, and various autoimmune conditions or idiopathic interstitial lung disease, when no obvious underlying cause is identified. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), on the other hand, are a spectrum of clonal myeloid disorders, with a higher risk of acute leukemia, characterized by ineffective bone marrow (BM) hematopoiesis and, thus, peripheral blood (PB) cytopenias. Immune deregulation is thought to take part in the pathophysiology of the disease, including abnormal T and/or B cell responses, innate immunity, and cytokine expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate a possible chemorefractoriness mechanism of a Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) histological subtype, specifically of DLBCL, not otherwise specified (DLBCL, NOS), namely the effect of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) immunoreceptor signalling, considering that the identification of additional negative prognostic factors can lead to better prognostication and therapeutic approaches.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of DLBCL, NOS patients, gathering their clinical features and combining them with PD-1 and its ligand (PD-L1) expression at the time of diagnosis as well as their response to treatment.
Results: No statistically significant difference was found when comparing PD-L1 positive to PD-L1 negative patients, while overall survival (OS) and duration of complete response (CR) were better for PD-L1 negative patients but the difference was not statistically significant.
Introduction: Chlormethine gel is a skin-directed therapy recommended for patients with early-stage mycosis fungoides (MF) cutaneous T cell lymphoma.
Methods: Herein, we present three cases of patients with stage IB-IIB MF who were treated with chlormethine gel and concomitant therapies.
Results: All patients responded well to treatment with chlormethine gel; complete responses were observed with improvements in Modified Severity-Weighted Assessment Tool scores and severity of lesions; one patient reported an improvement in quality of life.
Exposure to loud noise can cause hearing loss and tinnitus in mice and humans. In mice, one major underlying mechanism of noise-induced tinnitus is hyperactivity of auditory brainstem neurons, due at least in part, to decreased Kv7.2/3 (KCNQ2/3) potassium channel activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary cutaneous follicle center lymphoma (PCFCL) is defined as a low-grade B-cell non- Hodgkins lymphoma, which primarily occurs and remains confined to the skin, without evidence of extracutaneous or systemic involvement at the time of diagnosis. PCFCL affecting the breast skin is an exceedingly rare entity with only two cases reported in the English literature. We present a case of PCFCL affecting the periareolar breast skin and review the relevant literature.
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