Generalized Molluscum Contagiosum Successfully Treated with Interferon-Alpha in a Patient with Folliculotropic Mycosis Fungoides

Author(s):
Melchers, R.C.; Willemze, R.; Jansen, P.M.; Vermaat, J.S.P.; Vermeer, M.H. (0000-0002-5872-4613); Quint, K.D.
Published
2019
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

We present the case of a 50-year-old patient with folliculotropic mycosis fungoides (FMF) unresponsive to retinoids and the chemotherapeutic regimens CHOP, gemcitabine, and brentuximab-vedotin. During immunosuppressive therapy, the patient developed extensive progressive molluscum contagiosum. The mollusca did not respond to topical imiquimod but showed a swift complete response to interferon-alpha 2a (IFNa). Recently, the patient started with alemtuzumab as induction therapy for an allogenic stem cell transplantation and simultaneously continued IFNa therapy. (C) 2019 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel

Molluscum contagiosumInterferon alphaFolliculotropicMycosis fungoides
Date issued
2019-01-01
Language
English
Publisher
KARGER
Is part of
Case Reports in Dermatology (2019), Vol. 11, no. 1, p. 52-56
hdl
1887/121923
doi
10.1159/000497349