Cutaneous plasmablastic lymphoma in an immunocompetent patient with long-term pyrimethamine use for essential thrombocythemia: a case report and literature review

Case Rep Hematol. 2013:2013:541783. doi: 10.1155/2013/541783. Epub 2013 Feb 6.

Abstract

We report a case of Epstein-Barr-virus-(EBV-) positive primary cutaneous plasmablastic lymphoma in a human-immunodeficiency-virus-(HIV-) negative, immunocompetent 62-year-old female patient. We postulate that her lymphoma development is due to the longstanding use of pyrimethamine for essential thrombocythemia. This has never been described in the literature.