A 21-year-old woman with eventually fatal malignant atrophic papulosis (Degos disease) was treated primarily with the fibrinolytic agents phenformin hydrochloride and ethylestrenol. In spite of therapy, primarily central nervous system manifestations led to the patient's death.
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