Improvement of plaquelike cutaneous mucinosis after intravenous immunoglobulins treatment

Can biologic treatment induce cutaneous focal mucinosis?

Skin mucinosis is a rare skin disease which clinically manifests as firm papules and waxy nodules. We report a case of a 66-year-old female psoriatic patient who developed skin mucinosis during biological therapy. Because of a previous lack of response to the local and conventional systemic treatment of psoriasis, the patient received biological therapy (infliximab from June 2008 to May 2009 - ...

Cutaneous mucinosis of infancy

CMI: cutaneous mucinosis of infancy SHJCM: self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis W e present a case of a 4-year-old fairskinned girl, with no significant medical history, who presented to the outpatient clinic of an academic medical center with an asymptomatic, flesh-colored, cobblestoned plaque on her lateral left thigh (Fig 1). Per the family’s report, the lesion had grown significantly s...

Self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis.

Self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis is an extremely uncommon disorder characterized by the acute eruption of multiple papules and subcutaneous nodules. In this report, we describe one of the youngest patients reported to date with self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis and further define several of the histologic and clinical characteristics unique to the disorder. Awareness of this di...

Autoimmune neuropathies and treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins

Self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis

Girl, aged 4 years old, began the disease with pain of the lower extremities, fever up to 38°C and signs of upper airway infection. Then the patient developed oedema and redness of the whole face, thickened skin, subcutaneous nodular foldings of the frontal, occipital, cervical and axillary regions, extensor areas of the joints; fine, hard whitish nodules in the frontal region and over interpha...