Skin lymphoma morbidity over a 10-year period (based on data from the Rostov-on-Don Skin Clinic)

The author analyzes the incidence of skin lymphomas and the manifestations of this condition in the patients treated in the dermatologic center of Rostov-on-Don in 1979-1987. There were 14 patients with primary reticulosis of the skin, 11 ones with mycosis fungoides, 1 with reticulosarcomatosis, 2 with lympholeukemia, and 16 with psoriasis en plaques. Each group of patients is characterized in detail. Comparative analysis of the morphologic forms of lymphomas of the skin has detected the differences in the course of each process. Analysis of the cases with skin lymphomas calls for further studies and improvement of the methods of treatment of this patient population.     

Drug-induced sweat gland necrosis in a non-comatose patient: a case presentation

BACKGROUND: Coma-induced bullae and sweat gland necrosis is a rare clinicopathological entity often associated with drug-induced coma. SUBJECT: We report a case with clinical and histopathologic findings characteristic of blisters and sweat gland necrosis occurring in a non-comatose patient. CONCLUSIONS: Skin blisters with underlying sweat gland necrosis is an entity previously reported to occur in comatose patients, our findings open new questions about the role of the drugs in the pathogenesis of those conditions.