Sarcomatosis Cutis

Sclerosing osteogenic sarcomatosis.

A case is reported in which the amputation of a leg for a sclerosing type of osteogenic sarcoma was followed five years later by a metastasis of similar appearance in the skull. This was excised but subsequent necropsy revealed multiple bony tumours in the lungs. The rarity of multiple osteogenic sarcoma is recalled as shown by a review of the literature. Although some are thought to be of mult...

Aplasia cutis congenita

The patient was a female neonate bornprematurely at 36 weeks of gestation by a Cesareansection. During pregnancy, the mother had nohistory of fever, drug use, or X-ray exposure.The mother was gravida 2 and had no history ofabortion. Her first child was healthy. There wasno record of birth trauma. The perinatal historywas negative for intrauterine trauma, the use ofantithyroid medication, or mis...

Calcinosis cutis.

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION An 87-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, atrial fi brillation, and mixed connective tissue disease was admitted to hospital because of heart failure. Besides clinical signs of ventricular dysfunction, physical examination showed painless, subcutaneous nodules that had developed during the past 10 years on her left elbow ( fi gure 1A ) and knees ( fi gure 1B , righ...

Calcinosis Cutis

Neonatal leukemia cutis presenting with dysmorphic features and cutis laxa

Congenital leukemia is a rare disease with particular biological and clinical characteristics, which differs from those of older children. Its prognosis is generally poor. Its clinical manifestation may vary (hyperleukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, organomegaly) and some patients can develop cutaneous infiltration by leukemic cells (leukemia cutis). We describe a dysmorphic patient with thrombocyt...