ABSTRACT
Lymphoma presenting with ulceration is not typical. Wereport a case of relapsed DLBCL in a 73-year-old manpresenting with a chronic non-healing leg ulcer. He hasunderlying varicose veins with recurrent venous ulcers. This patient was diagnosed to have DLBCL six years earlier when he presented with recurrent epistaxis originating from a left nasal cavity nodule. Complete resolution was achieved after eight cycles of R-CHOP and intrathecal methotrexate. For this current problem, this patient was treated with rituximab combined with chemotherapy which resulted in healing of the ulcer.
ABSTRACT
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a severe mucocutaneous disease characterized by extensive epidermal detachment with drugs as the most probable cause. We describe a unique case of TEN where systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was found to be the precipitating underlying disease. Our patient was managed in ICU, however succumbed one month after her diagnosis due to overwhelming sepsis and multiorgan failure.