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ACQUIRED HYPERTRICHOSIS LANUGINOSA ASSOCIATED WITH ENDOMETRIAL MALIGNANCY

From the Endocrine Service, Gynecology Service, Tumor Service. Clinical Research Center and the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx. New York

Abstract

A 46-year-old milligravida complained of the recent development of an crythematous skin eruption and fine blond hair over her face. These complaints appeared to be symptoms of acquired hrpertrichosis lanuginosa, which may be associated with malignancy. The patient was found to have an endometrial adenocarcinoma with nodal melastases and was treated with hysterectomy and irradiation. Eighteen months later there was no evidence of the cancer, and the lanugo hairs had vanished. This is the first known instance of hypertrichosis lanuginosa associated with a gynecologic cancer and the first ever observed in which the lanugo hairs disappeared after cancer therapy.