Comment on "Cheilitis with hemorrhagic crusts of the vermilion lips".

Paraneoplastic SCLE is clinically similar to idiopathic SCLE, mostly with positive anti-Ro antibody, reported predominantly in male patients, and responds to the same treatment for idiopathic SCLE. Xie I et al i [2] reported three elderly patients with SCLE, 58, 77, and 61 years, who had developed small cell lung cancer, esophageal cancer, and bronchogenic carcinoma, respectively. Details of age-adapted malignancy workout were not reported by Litaiem I et al i .[1] According to Ashworth,[4] who reported a case of SCLE with Crohn's disease (CD) in 1992, certain immunological changes exist in both SCLE and CD that may suggest a possible common pathway. [Extracted from the article]