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Diffuse Cutaneous Reticulohistiocytosis
COL Detlef K. Goette, MC;
COL Richard B. Odom, MC;
LTC James E. Fitzwater, Jr, MC
Arch Dermatol. 1982;118(3):173-176.
Abstract
• A 65-year-old man had a diffuse, asymptomatic, cutaneous eruption of 5- to 15-mm reddish-brown, nonscaling papules in arcuate, annular, and serpiginous patterns for one year. The morphologic, light microscopic, and ultrastructural features of the skin lesions were typical of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis; however, the patient had no historic, clinical, laboratory, or roentgenographic evidence of arthritis. Spontaneous involution of the eruption occurred 17 months after onset. Several weeks later subacute myelogenous leukemia developed. The reported occurrence of isolated and multiple reticulohistiocytomas, diffuse cutaneous reticulohistiocytosis without systemic involvement, and multicentric reticulohistiocytosis with identical light microscopic and ultrastructural findings suggests that these conditions probably represent a spectrum of clinical expressions of similar etiologic and pathogenetic mechanisms.
(Arch Dermatol 1982;118:173-176)
Author Affiliations
USA; USA; USA
From the Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine (Drs Goette and Odom), and the Pathology Department (Dr Fitzwater), Letterman Army Medical Center, Presidio of San Francisco.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 19, 1981.
The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.
Reprints not available.
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