CASE REPORT
Mycosis fungoides: A challenge for the diagnosis
Received Date : 24 Apr 2019
Accepted Date : 23 Jun 2019
Miguel Armando Benavides-Huertoa, Vanessa Paredes-Solísb, Francisco Alejandro Lagunas-Rangelc
aLaboratorio de Patología y Citopatología, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
bDepartment of Dermatology, Hospital General “Dr. Miguel Silva”, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
cDepartment of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional (CINVESTAV), Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Doi: 10.1016/j.jons.2019.06.002 - Article's Language: EN
J Oncol Sci 5 (2019) 70-72
ABSTRACT
Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most common primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. This cancer characteristically
affects the skin, causing different types of skin lesions that progress slowly through several
stages, although not all people with the condition progress through all stages.We present a case of MF in
a 32-year-old female patient with many years of nonspecific eczematous and psoriasiform skin lesions
and non-diagnostic biopsies. The diagnosis of MF can be very difficult and misleading. The wide range of
clinical and pathological presentations of MF makes this disease a challenge for diagnosis and, therefore,
requires an accurate differential diagnosis integrated by the patient's clinic together with the histological
and immunological findings.
Keywords: T-cell lymphoma; clinical manifestations; histology; immunological labeling
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