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SUBMITTER: Oka T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6548851 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oka Tomonori T Miyagaki Tomomitsu T
Frontiers in medicine 20190529
Mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary syndrome (SS) are the most common subtypes of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. The majority of MF cases present with only patches and plaques and the lesions are usually limited to the skin. On the other hand, in some cases, patients show skin tumors or erythroderma followed by lymph node involvement and rarely visceral organ involvement. SS is a rare, aggressive cutaneous T-cell lymphoma marked by exfoliative erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, and leukemic blood involvem ...[more]