OBJECTIVE To determine the prognostic value of analyzing lymph node (LN) DNA from patients with mycosis fungoides for the presence of a monoclonal T-cell population. DESIGN Inception cohort study. SETTING A tertiary care referral center in Seattle, Wash. PATIENTS Fifty-five uniformly staged patients with the diagnosis of mycosis fungoides and who had a lymph node biopsy, 21 with clinicall...

BACKGROUND Interstitial mycosis fungoides (IMF) is a rare variant of mycosis fungoides that resembles the interstitial form of granuloma annulare and inflammatory morphea. IMF has received little attention in the literature. METHODS Clinical, histological, immunophenotypical, and genotypical findings of five cases of IMF were reviewed. The histological and immunophenotypical findings were com...

A 48-year-old man was referred to our institution for acute limb ischaemia. He had been diagnosed with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, so-called mycosis fungoides by gene rearrangement analysis of skin biopsy samples 9 years ago. He had received prednisolone 5 mg daily and phototherapy for mycosis fungoides. Although allergy symptoms and signs including asthma, peripheral neuropathy and glomerulonep...