Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia (Aug 2016)

Primary cutaneous plasmablastic lymphoma revealing clinically unsuspected HIV infection

  • Silvio Alencar Marques,
  • Luciana P. Fernandes Abbade,
  • Marcelo Massaki Guiotoku,
  • Mariangela Esther Alencar Marques

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20164764
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 91, no. 4
pp. 507 – 509

Abstract

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Abstract: Plasmablastic lymphoma is a rare subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma more frequently diagnosed in immunosuppressed patients, mainly HIV-infected. Primary cutaneous plasmablastic lymphoma is extremely rare, and in this patient it was the first clinical manifestation of unsuspected HIV-infection.

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