Necrotizing vasculitis induced by cytomegalovirus in a woman with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Ghigliotti, G.; Canessa, A.; Pastorino, A.; Mazzarello, G.; De Marchi, R.; Gambini, C.
Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie 121(11): 820-822
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0151-9638 PMID: 7631994 Document Number: 433634
Skin lesions induced by cytomegalovirus are rare and usually non-characteristic. A 32-year-old women with AIDS developed about twenty unpainful ulceronecrotic lesions on the extension aspect of the members and the trunk. Histology examination and in situ hybridization favoured cytomegalovirus infection of the skin. Despite the exceptional nature of this case, this particular clinical presentation should be recognized as it could be useful for early diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infection in immunodepressed subjects.