Cutaneous Intravascular/Angiotropic Lymphoma Following a Septic Shock Episode. Case Report and Literature Review

Angiotropic lymphoma is a rare aggressive disease characterized by exclusive or predominant accumulation of malignantlymphoid cells within the lumen of small arteries, veins and capillaries. We describe a 74-year-old female patient whopresented at the department of dermatology with widespread cutaneous telangiectasia and generalized edema. No neurologicsymptoms were present during the course of these clinical manifestations. After close-up examination and further laboratoryand radiological studies, the final diagnosis of cutaneous intravascular lymphoma was made in the histopathological report.Immunochemistry evaluation confirmed a B-cell subtype. Diagnosis of this rare disease, in most cases, is achieved bysurgical biopsy. The biopsy and immunohistochemistry have increased the chances of an ante mortem diagnosis. Afterward,the patient was referred to Hematologic Department to follow the combined chemotherapy treatment, which resulted to besuccessful, and the cutaneous lesions began to disappear