Fatal chronic cutaneous herpes simplex associated with thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia

Abstract
SUMMARY: A patient is described who suffered from cutaneous herpes simplex for 9 years. A raediastinal tumour had been demonstrated radiologically 10 years prior to the onset of the skin disease and at autopsy the tumour was identified as a spindle cell thymoma. The patient also had hypogammaglobulinaemia.