Cutaneous plasmacytosis, a rare form of cutaneous pseudolymphoma. Case report

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cutaneous and systemic plasmacytosis, pseudolymphoma, hyperganmaglobulinemia

Abstract

Introduction: a pseudolymphoma is a benign, reversible, inflammatory, reactive and polyclonal lymphocytic proliferation that spontaneously regresses or heals after the elimination of the causal factor.
Patient information: the case of an 80-year-old female patient with disseminated, erythematous, pruritic skin lesions in the form of plaques and wheals associated with periorbital edema and pruritus is presented. The patient also presented target lesions simulating erythema multiforme. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings were compatible with a cutaneous pseudolymphoma, variant plasmacytosis cutis.
Conclusions: this is an infrequent disease, of which no cases were reported in Cuba.

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Author Biographies

Silvianne Vargas Gutiérrez, Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"

Especialista en I Grado en Anatomía Patológica. Profesora Instructora en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara.

Johamel Ramón Ramos Valdés, Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"

Especialista en I Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista en I y II Grado en Anatomía Patológica. Profesor Asistente en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara.

Yordan Martín Pozo, Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"

Especialista en I Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista en I Grado en Dermatología. Profesor Instructor en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara.

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2022-01-18

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Vargas Gutiérrez S, Ramos Valdés JR, Martín Pozo Y. Cutaneous plasmacytosis, a rare form of cutaneous pseudolymphoma. Case report. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2022 Jan. 18 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];16(1):158-64. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/1209

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): January-March

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