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BACKGROUND: Granulomatous slack skin is a very rare subtype of T-cell cutaneous lymphoma, characterized by the slow development of cutaneous sagging, especially on flexural areas. Its behavior is indolent and the treatment, in the majority of cases, disappointing. MAIN OBSERVATION: We report a 54-year-old black patient with granulomatous slack skin, who at the beginning of the investigation showed intense xeroderma and generalized lymph node enlargement. The diagnosis was established based on histopathologic findings long before the disease's characteristic clinical presentation appeared. CONCLUSIONS: During the twelve years of follow-up, the clinical manifestation evolved to marked skin looseness, most predominant in flexural regions, illustrating the clinical hallmark of granulomatous slack skin, long after first histological abnormalities were observed.
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The authors report a case of a 79-year-old woman presenting livedoid vasculitis. This is a painfull clinical entity, characterized by purpuric lesions with shaped ulcers and atrophie blanche. Raised anticardiolipin antibody titers are associated at the present case. The ethiopatogenic mecanisms and the different denominations for the disease are discussed
