ISSN:
1365-2133
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
The peripheral T-cell lymphomas represent a heterogeneous group and include, besides mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome, large-cell anaplastic lymphoma. We report 1 S cases from our files I that fulfil the histological criteria of pleomorphic T-cell lympoma with primary skin involvement. Most of the cases were elderly with a male-to-female ratio of 1·5: 1. The HTLV-1 serology was negative. The clinical features of these patients differed from those with mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome, in that eczematous and precursor lesions such as parupsoriasis en plaque were lacking apart from one exception. All the patients with small-cell pleomorphic T-cell lymphomas were alive, although three of the nine patients with medium-to-large tumour cells have died. Pleomorphic T-cell lymphoma should be regarded as a distinct entity among the lymphoproliferative disorders of the skin.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1992.tb15116.x
