Toxic epidermal necrolysis is a drug-induced dermatologic disease related to Lyell syndrome, erythema multiforme and Stevens-Johnson syndrome. PURPOSE: To report a fatal case of toxic epidermal necrolysis owing to intermediate dose of cytarabine. CASE REPORT: A 16 year-old female patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia (LLA-L1) treated with the Protocol of the Brazilian Group for Treatment of Leukemia of Childwood (GBTLI-85-AR). On the second day after the administration of intermediate dose of cytarabine (1.5g/m² IV every 12 hours for 3 days), she presented bullous lesions in the left buttock that disseminated envolving to necrosis, sepsis, and death on the 13th day. CONCLUSION: Cytarabine is frequently associated with dermatologic toxicity but, until now, there is no other case of toxic epidermal necrolysis described.
Citosina-arabinosídeo; Cytarabine; Skin disease -- vesiculobullous; Toxic epidermal necrolysis
