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European Journal of Dermatology

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Bleomycin-induced digital gangrene Volume 8, issue 3, April-May 1998

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Service de Médecine Interne Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Université Paris VI, 47-83, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
  • Page(s) : 221
  • Published in: 1998

We read with interest Petruzzelli's review concerning acral gangrene [1]. Indeed, bleomycin-induced digital gangrene is a rare but severe effect of the treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related Kaposi sarcoma (KS) [2, 3]. We report herein a new case. A 41-year-old, homosexual, Caucasian man, HIV-positive since 1986, developed a widespread cutaneous KS since mid-1987, with painful papulous lesions of the [...]