- 著者
- Toshiki Nakajima Daisuke Kawabata Shuichiro Nakabo Aya Miyagawa-Hayashino Naoichiro Yukawa Hajime Yoshifuji Koichiro Ohmura Takao Fujii Tsuneyo Mimori
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本内科学会
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.53, no.19, pp.2255-2258, 2014 (Released:2014-10-01)
- 参考文献数
- 15
- 被引用文献数
- 3 10
A 75-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) presented with long-term painful erythema on the right upper arm and left elbow. The patient was diagnosed with intralymphatic histiocytosis (ILH) based on the biopsy findings. Because the patient was unresponsive to single-agent treatment with methotrexate, infliximab and etanercept, we switched to tocilizumab (TCZ) treatment, which induced remission of the ILH. Our case suggests that TCZ may be a treatment option for ILH in patients with RA.