Bleomycin-induced flagellate dermatitis

Guilherme Devidé Mota; Adriana Marques Damasco Penna; Regina Cláudia Soares; Otávio Carvalho Guimarães Baiocchi

doi:10.1016/j.bjhh.2014.03.001

Bleomycin-induced flagellate dermatitis

Rev Bras Hematol Hemoter. 2014 Jul-Aug;36(4):297-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bjhh.2014.03.001. Epub 2014 Apr 3.

Authors

Guilherme Devidé Mota¹, Adriana Marques Damasco Penna², Regina Cláudia Soares², Otávio Carvalho Guimarães Baiocchi²

Affiliations

¹ Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: guilherme.devide@gmail.com.
² Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Abstract

A 29-year-old woman with stage IVB Hodgkin's lymphoma was treated with doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine. Two weeks after the first cycle was completed, she developed pruritic, linear erythematous lesions in a flagellate-like pattern on the trunk, neck and arms. After oral prednisone therapy and cessation of bleomycin, the lesions started to recede.

Keywords: Bleomycin; Drug eruptions; Erythema.