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Barry A. S. Lycka, MD; Valda N. Kaye, MD
Department of Dermatology University of Minnesota 420 Delaware St SE Box 98 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0392

Arch Dermatol. 1988;124(9):1442.

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To the Editor.—

We read with interest the report of Friedman and coworkers on acute follicular graft-vs-host reaction (disease) that appeared in the May issue of the ARCHIVES.¹ We have also seen this complication of bone marrow transplantation in two of our patients.

Both of our patients were men, aged 34 years, who had acute myelogenous leukemia, one with a granulocytic (M2) variant, the other with a monoblastic (M5A) variant. Both patients had failed courses of conventional chemotherapy. They received total body irradiation (8.5 Gy) and high-dose cyclophosphamide therapy (50 mg/kg/d for four consecutive days) prior to receipt of recin-treated autologous bone marrow transplants. Both transplants were complicated by the development of graft-vs-host disease, resulting in adult respiratory distress syndrome and the death of both patients.

Clinically, the first manifestation in both of our patients was flat-topped, follicular, dusky, erythematous papules on the buttocks and the backs of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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