A CASE OF PARANEOPLASTIC ELASTOSIS PERFORANS SERPIGINOSA ASSOCIATED WITH T-CELL NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA

Perforating dermatoses are a group of diseases characterized by transepidermal elimination of dermal material. This group is divided into four subgroups: Kyrle disease, reactive perforating collagenosis, elastosis perforans serpiginosa  and perforating folliculitis. They can be primary or secondary. Secondary perforating dermatoses may develop due to chronic renal failure, diabetes mellitus, autoimmune diseases and malignancies. With elastosis perforans serpiginosa, the rarest of this group, transepidermal elimination of dermal elastin tissue is present. It may be idiopathic but may also develop  Down syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan's syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta, acrogeria, Rothound-Thomson syndrome, cutislaxa and due to using D-penicillamine medication. Here in is presented, as the second case in the literature, a 60-year-old patient with paraneoplastic EPS associated with T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.