[Bullous pemphigoid with figurate erythema. A case report].

Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune dermatosis characterized by deposition of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and/or complement along basement membrane zone. The lesions of bullous pemphigoid are tense blisters on trunk and extremities, oral lesions are unusual. Figurate erythema includes some dermatologic pictures characterized by annular and polycyclic lesions.

[Erythema gyratum repens Gammel without internal cancer--case report].

Erythema gyratum repens Gammel is a rare illness that almost always accompanies the tumour of internal organs. The case of 63 year-old women with the clinical and histological recognition of Erythema gyratum repens Gammel without the accompanying tumour will be introduced. The exanthema had the character of swelling, itchy erythemas that very quickly (in a few days) started widening concentrically, forming the typical ring-shaped pattern reminding grains.

Lupus erythematosus gyratus repens.

"Lupus erythematosus gyratus repens" is viewed clinically and histologically as an annular variant of a subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus and was described for the first time in French by the authors Laugier, Lénys and Bulte in 1959 as chronic-recurrent figurate erythema. The current name of the disease goes back to Hewitt et al. (1975) and Laugier (1977).

Gyrate erythema associated with metastatic tumor of gastrointestinal tract.

Figurate or gyrate erythemas are group of skin conditions that present as annular or figurate erythematous papules and plaques with peripheral spreading. Several diseases are included in this group but only two of them are associated with underlying malignancy, erythema annulare centrifugum and erythema gyratum repens. We present a 58-year-old woman with simultaneous presentation of gyrate erythema and skin metastasis from a gastrointestinal tumor that was diagnosed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry as a leiomyogenic gastrointestinal stromal tumor.

Penicillin-induced anti-p200 pemphigoid: an unusual morphology.

We report here a case of a 52-year-old woman with erythema gyratum repens-like lesions appearing during anti-p200 pemphigoid, probably induced by oral penicillin. The diagnosis of anti-p200 pemphigoid was made by the presence of in vivo bound and circulating IgG anti-basement membrane zone auto-antibody reactive with the dermal side of salt-split skin and with 200 kDa protein in dermal extract on Western immunoblot. Laser scanning confocal microscopic study disclosed the localization of IgG at the lamina lucida-lamina densa border.

Acrokeratosis paraneoplastica of Bazex as an indicator for underlying squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.

Purpose: Obligatory cutaneous paraneoplastic disorders comprising acanthosis nigricans maligna, erythema gyratum repens, paraneoplastic pemphigus, hypertrichosis lanuginosa acquisita, erythema necrolyticum migrans and acrokeratosis paraneoplastica are rare. However, as markers of an underlying internal malignancy they are of utmost importance for the patient. Acrokeratosis paraneoplastica (first described by Gougerot and Rupp in 1922) was named after Bazex who had then reported several cases in a French dermatological journal since 1965 (Bazex et al.

[Atypical erythema gyratum repens secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma].

Erythema gyratum repens (EGR) is an obligate paraneoplastic eruption that indicates an underlying malignancy, most commonly cancer of the lung or breast. The characteristic clinical finding is a rapidly expanding, mildly scaling dermatosis with a 'wood-grain' pattern. This typical concentric erythema is not seen in all patients.

Life-threatening paraneoplastic cutaneous syndromes.

Paraneoplastic syndromes are diseases or symptom complexes associated with malignancy, usually internal. In dermatology, we modify the definition to refer to dermatoses associated with internal malignancy. In this article, we discuss the link between malignancy and such dermatologic disorders as acanthosis nigricans, acrokeratosis paraneoplastica of Bazex, dermatomyositis, erythema gyratum repens, necrolytic migratory erythema (glucagonoma syndrome), and paraneoplastic pemphigus and discuss, where such information is known, the mechanism by which these paraneoplastic diseases occur.

Modelling skin disease: lessons from the worlds of mathematics, physics and computer science.

Theoretical biology is a field that attempts to understand the complex phenomena of life in terms of mathematical and physical principles. Likewise, theoretical medicine employs mathematical arguments and models as a methodology in approaching the complexities of human disease. Naturally, these concepts can be applied to dermatology.

Erythema gyratum repens in a case of resolving psoriasis.

Erythema gyratum repens (EGR) is a rare skin syndrome often associated with internal malignancies, and thus considered paraneoplastic. There are cases of erythema gyratum repens in the literature associated with other dermatoses without underlying malignancies. We present a case of resolving psoriasis which evolved into erythema gyratum repens when treated with acitretin.

Erythema gyratum repens responding to cetirizine hydrochloride.

We report a case of erythema gyratum repens (EGR) in a 59-year-old man with inoperable pancreatic cancer and liver metastasis. The patient had a widespread erythema with concentric marginal band spreading in waves over the trunk and extremities. Numerous vesicles were seen on the margin of the erythema.

[An association of paraneoplastic syndromes in a patient].

Background: Erythema gyratum repens is a rare cutaneous marker for internal malignancy and the association with other paraneoplastic syndromes is not unusual.

Case Report: We report the case of a 54 year-old man with a three-month history of erythroderma which evolved into erythema gyratum repens; a bronchial carcinoma was discovered. Erythema gyratum repens was associated with acquired ichthyosis, hyperkeratosis of the ears and eosinophilia.

Leukocytoclastic vasculitis presenting as an erythema gyratum repens--like eruption on a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis is a common finding among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, although the clinical appearance of the lesions varies. We report the case of a 38-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus who had leukocytoclastic vasculitis with peculiar clinical morphologic features of the cutaneous lesions. They consisted of figured erythema closely resembling erythema gyratum repens.