Multiple Lentigines Confined to Resolving Psoriatic Plaques in a Patient Treated with Adalimumab

Multiple haemangiomas in a psoriatic arthritis patient treated with cyclosporine.

Eruptive Lentigines after Adalimumab Therapy

Adalimumab, a TNF-alpha antagonist, is the first fully humanized recombinant immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody. It is presently widely used in the systemic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, moderate and severe psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa. However, its administration is associated with a two-fold risk of severe and possibly fatal infections and ...

Cryptosporidiosis in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis treated with adalimumab.

Cryptosporidiosis is a parasitic disease caused by a protozoan called Cryptosporidium sp. An increased number of diagnoses were made in the last 20 years, especially in patients with immunodeficiency like the acquired human immunodeficiency syndrome and induced immunodeficiency, such as in transplant patients and those who need frequent hemodialysis, has been observed. We report the case of a y...

Mycobacterium chelonae infection in a patient being treated with adalimumab.

Myxoid DFSP expresses apolipoprotein D and presents with a storiform pattern and characteristic subcutaneous infiltration. Diagnosis is confirmed by detection of the chromosomal translocation t(17;22). The differential diagnosis should include benign myxoid lesions with spindle-shaped cells (myxoid neurofibroma, superficial angiomyxoma, mucous cyst), malignant myxoid lesions with spindle-shaped...

[Adult blaschkitis (lichen striatus) in a patient treated with adalimumab].

Lichen striatus is an acquired inflammatory dermatosis that usually presents in children as papules arranged in a single band following the Baschko lines on an extremity. The disorder resolves slowly, leaving transient hypopigmentation, and rarely recurs. Histopathology findings indicate both lichenoid and spongiotic dermatitis. A variant of blaschkitis that occurs in adults is referred to as a...