Transient acantholytic dermatosis in immunocompromised febrile patients with cancer

Linear Darier's disease in a patient with recurrent carcinoma of the bladder reflects cutaneous mosaicism

“…It was very important to exclude in our patient the possibility of a cutatieous metastasis of bladder carcinoma which may appear in a very similar unilateral zosteriform distribution [ 15]. It is also of interest that few cases of Grover's disease have been reported in imtnunocompromised febrile patients with cancer treated with chetnotherapy [16]. The onset of transient acantholytic dermatosis in those patients was attributed to heat, persistent fever and sweating and resolved over several days, coinciding with defervescence.…”

Transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover's disease) in a renal transplant patient

“…Grover's disease has been previously described in some immunodeficiency conditions, including HIV infection, 5,6 bone marrow transplantation, 12 and various malignancies, both hematological ones such as myelogenous leukemia, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia and multiple myeloma [11][12][13][14][15] and solid carcinomas of the kidney, stomach and genitourinary tract. [7][8][9][10] The incidence of GD after bone marrow transplantation has been roughly estimated to be 1.8%. 12 Our patient is the first case of GD developing in a renal transplant patient under immunosuppressive treatment.…”

Grover's disease: 34 years on

“…7 Bed rest in hospital seems to be a common trigger for its appearance, and regular associations include any febrile illness, immunodeficiency or malignancy, including leukaemia and lymphoma. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14] It has been proposed that pathological changes involving the acrosyringia, as in miliaria, may be important in its causation, but this has not been demonstrated convincingly. 8…”