Abstract
Gianotti–Crosti syndrome (GCS) is characterized by a distinctive self-limiting acral papular or papulovesicular eruption associated with an underlying viral illness. It has not been previously reported in patients post-bone marrow transplantation. We report a 6-year-old Japanese boy who underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in second remission. He had clinical and histopathologic findings characteristic of GCS and evidence of subclinical infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) detected by CMV antigenemia assay. It is likely that CMV is the causative agent for the GCS in this case.
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Haki, M., Tsuchida, M., Kotsuji, M. et al. Gianotti–Crosti syndrome associated with cytomegalovirus antigenemia after bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 20, 691–693 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1700945
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1700945