Paraneoplastic Urticarial Vasculitis and Recurrence of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma

Urticarial vasculitis and Schnitzler syndrome.

Both urticarial vasculitis and Schnitzler syndrome are serious diseases but a recently gained better understanding of their underlying pathomechanism allows better treatment options than only a decade ago.

Rectal wall recurrence of prostatic adenocarcinoma.

Case 1. A 60-year-old man was treated with 72 Gy. external beam radiation therapy for Gleason score 4 3 adenocarcinoma of the prostate diagnosed by transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy. After treatment prostate speci c antigen (PSA) decreased to 1.3 ng./ml. One year later PSA had increased to 2.0 ng./ml. Transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy revealed recurrent prostatic adenocarcinoma. Salvage c...

Urticarial vasculitis: a paraneoplastic presentation of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

SIR, Urticarial vasculitis (UV) has been described as a rare association with visceral and haematological malignancy [1–5]. It is thought that tumour-associated immune complexes might be involved in the pathogenesis of the vasculitis. We report the case of a patient with UV which predated the development of localized B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. We believe this is the first report of this ass...

Urticarial vasculitis induced by fluoxetine.

Urticarial Vasculitis in Northern Spain

Urticarial vasculitis (UV) is a subset of cutaneous vasculitis (CV), characterized clinically by urticarial skin lesions of more than 24 hours’ duration and histologically by leukocytoclastic vasculitis. We assessed the frequency, clinical features, treatment, and outcome of a series of patients with UV. We conducted a retrospective study of patients with UV included in a large series of unsele...