Mendiratta Vibhu, Gandhi Nikita, Rana Shiwangi, Shukla Shailaja
Department of Dermatology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2016 Jan-Feb;82(1):53-6. doi: 10.4103/0378-6323.164215.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a common childhood T-cell and B-cell neoplasm that originates primarily from lymphoid tissue. Cutaneous involvement can be in the form of a primary extranodal lymphoma, or secondary to metastasis from a non-cutaneous location. The latter is uncommon, and isolated cutaneous involvement is rarely reported. We report a case of isolated secondary cutaneous involvement from nodal anaplastic large cell lymphoma (CD30 + and ALK +) in a 7-year-old boy who was on chemotherapy. This case is reported for its unusual clinical presentation as an acute febrile, generalized papulonodular eruption that mimicked deep fungal infection, with the absence of other foci of systemic metastasis.
