Nutritional Deficiency and Acquired Ichthyosis

Ichthyosiform mycosis fungoides: a neoplastic acquired ichthyosis.

Sir, Acquired ichthyoses can either reflect an underlying severe disorder or may be an atypical expression of skin diseases such as cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (1). Otherwise, lymphomatous infiltrates in the skin can cause heterogeneous cutaneous symptoms and lesions, which may range from invisible features to massive tumour nodules. Mycosis fungoides is an epidermotropic cutaneous T-cell lympho...

Vitamin D deficiency rickets with Lamellar ichthyosis.

Nutritional rickets in ichthyosis and response to calcipotriene.

Nutritional rickets has occasionally been described in children with lamellar ichthyosis, but their vitamin D endocrine status has not been described. We report 3 cases of vitamin D-deficiency rickets associated with ichthyosis in African children. A 13-month-old Nigerian boy with lamellar ichthyosis had rib beading, elevated alkaline phosphatase, and rachitic changes on radiographs. His ricket...

Acquired Ichthyosis Revealing an Underlying Hodgkin ́s Lymphoma

Acquired ichthyosis is a nonhereditary cutaneous disorder characterized by dry, rough skin with scaling that involves significant areas of the body. The disease most commonly manifests in adulthood and usually represents malignancy, especially hematologic disease. We report a 48-year-old woman who presented to the dermatology out-patient clinic because of severe scaling of the skin with a “dirt...

Alcoholic Myelopathy and Nutritional Deficiency

A patient with chronic alcoholism presented with myelopathy and low serum folate and cobalamin levels. A 42-year-old alcoholic man had gait disturbance for 4 months. A neurological examination revealed marked spasticity with increased deep tendon reflexes and extensor plantar responses of the lower limbs. His cobalamin level was decreased and his serum folate level was particularly low. His pla...