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- Title
Borrelial lymphocytoma - a historical case.
- Authors
SONCK, C. E.; VILJANEN, M.; HIRSIMÄKI, P.; SÖDERSTRÖM, K. O.; EKFORS, T. O.
- Abstract
We here describe a patient with a tick bite in the areola mammae in 1953 followed by erythema migrans. Twenty years later, after another tick bite in the axillary skin, also followed by erythema migrans, a large lymphatic infiltrate developed in the mammary skin, when the margin of the erythema reached the areola. The infiltrate resolved within a year without any therapy. Borrelial DNA was detected by polymerase chain reaction in the paraffin blocks of the lymphatic skin infiltrate. The patient died 9 years later of generalized lymphoma. A similar monoclonal immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement was detected both in the mammary skin lesion and in the lymphoma specimen.
- Publication
APMIS, 1998, Vol 106, Issue 7-12, p947
- ISSN
0903-4641
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb00244.x