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Kayo Okada1, Yuichiro Endo1, Akihiro Fujisawa1
1Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Case Reports in Dermatology
|January 8, 2015
Abstract:
Seborrheic dermatitis is an inflammatory eruption that tends to distribute on the sebaceous areas of the body and is rarely described as a paraneoplasia. Here we report a case with a responsive seborrheic dermatitis-like eruption of the head which resulted in generalized erythroderma. Intensive examinations detected concurrent malignant lymphoma.
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