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Chicken pox and acute monocytic leukaemia skin lesions in an HIV-seropositive man
P De la Salmonière1, M Janier, J Gilquin
1Department of Dermatology, Hôpital St Joseph, Paris, France.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
Lymphoid neoplasia is now well known to occur in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection but the first case of acute monocytic leukaemia in an HIV-seropositive man has been only recently described. We report the case of an HIV-infected patient who simultaneously developed skin lesions of acute monocytic leukaemia and chicken pox. We suggest that HIV may produce a malignant transformation of monocytic cells.