Drug-induced subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus related to doxycycline.

摘要: An 84-year-old woman presented with a three-month history of scaly, erythematous, annular papules and plaques on her chest, back, arms, legs, which developed after short course doxycycline. Histopathologic examination skin biopsy specimens was consistent subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE). A presumptive diagnosis drug-induced SCLE secondary to doxycycline made. Although minocycline-induced is widely reported in the literature, there are no known previous case reports doxycycline-induced SCLE.