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sQUIZ your knowledge! Rapidly growing purplish tumours Volume 32, numéro 5, September-October 2022

Illustrations


  • Figure 1.
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Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

A 77-year-old male, diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome on supportive care, presented with generalized pruritic violaceous bruise-like plaques and nodules on the trunk (figure 1A, B) and extremities (figure 1C). The patient had no other symptoms. Topical and systemic corticoid treatment was used with partial improvement. A biopsy revealed a diffuse monomorphus infiltrate of neoplastic cells with a blastoid morphology in the dermis and positive staining for CD123 (figure 1D), CD4 (figure 1E) [...]