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Case Reports
. 2015 Sep 27;1(6):342-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2015.08.006. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia treated with low-dose methotrexate

Abdulqader Alaidarous  1 , Xavier Bouissou  2 , Juliette Mazereeuw-Hautier  1 , Cristina Bulai-Livideanu  1 , Laurence Lamant  3 , Carle Paul  1
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Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia treated with low-dose methotrexate

Abdulqader Alaidarous et al. JAAD Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: ALHE, angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia; angiolymphoid hyperplasia; eosinophilia; methotrexate.

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Fig 1
Fig 1
Histopathologic features of ALHE. Vascular hyperplasia lined by enlarged endothelial cells, inflammatory infiltrate with lymphocytes and eosinophils. (Hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification: ×200.)
Fig 2
Fig 2
Multiple well-infiltrated, brown-violaceous plaques and nodules on the neck before initiation of the methotrexate (A). Twelve months after treatment with methotrexate, the lesions regressed dramatically. There remains scars of the initial biopsies with postinflammatory hyperpigmentation and some minimally inflamed macular lesions (B).
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