Abstract
Four cases of a Grover's-like disease in patients with leukemia/lymphoma, who underwent high-dose chemotherapy and either allogeneic/autologous bone marrow transplantation or autologous stem cell infusion, are described. Three of four patients had fever prior to the onset of their rash. In addition to suprabasilar clefts, acantholysis, and dyskeratosis, typical of Grover's disease, there was a chemotherapeutic effect in the form of keratinocytes with atypical nuclei. So-called "starburst cells," which have been purported to be specific for high-dose etoposide (VP-16) therapy, were seen in two cases, but only one of these patients received etoposide. In one patient with clinical vesicles, direct immunofluorescence ruled out paraneoplastic pemphigus. In conjunction with 18 similar cases in the literature, the following conclusions were reached: (a) the pathogenesis probably involves the combined effects of fever (with sweating), occlusion, and chemo/radiation therapy; (b) no single chemotherapeutic agent can be consistently implicated; and (c) in addition to graft-versus-host disease, the eruption of lymphocyte recovery, and other cutaneous eruptions in the setting of bone marrow transplantation, the differential diagnosis includ...Continue Reading
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