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To the Editor: In their excellent review of cutaneous reactions to drugs (Nov. 10 issue), Roujeau and Stern¹ include vasculitis associated with lymphomas in the differential diagnosis of drug-induced vasculitis. Cutaneous vasculitis has also been associated, although infrequently, with solid tumors.^2,3 Among hematologic cancers, leukemias have been associated with cutaneous vasculitis more often than lymphomas have.² The dermatologic manifestations may antedate the discovery of the neoplasia, and pathologically, the most common manifestation is a leukocytoclastic vasculitis.

Francisco J. Fernández-Fernández, M.D.
J.A. Garrido, M.D.
Hospital A. Marcide
15405 Ferrol, Spain

References

1. Roujeau JC, Stern RS. Severe adverse cutaneous reactions to drugs. N Engl J Med 1994;331:1272-1285. [Free Full Text]
2. Greer JM, Longley S, Edwards NL, Elfenbein GJ, Panush RS. Vasculitis associated with malignancy: experience with 13 patients and literature review. Medicine (Baltimore) 1988;67:220-230. [Medline]
3. Mertz LE, Conn DL. Vasculitis associated with malignancy. Curr Opin Rheumatol 1992;4:39-46. [Medline]

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