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Dermatitic Precursors of Mycosis Fungoides

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Skin Cancer

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It has long been recognized in dermatology that certain apparent long-standing, recalcitrant dermatoses have the potential to develop into an overt cutaneous lymphoma or lymphoma-like conditions, particularly mycosis fungoides (1). Mycosis fungoides and related conditions are reviewed in Chapter 13. Some of these apparent long-standing dermatoses were considered to be definable as one or another of a group of diseases known as the parapsoriasis group; the remainder, despite resemblance in some cases to such diseases as atopic or seborrheic dermatitis early in their course, were considered to have been lymphoma/mycosis fungoides all along, but not to have manifested themselves clearly as such until quite late in their course (1,2). This led, in turn, to a concept that certain of these disorders in the parapsoriasis group are also, in fact, early stages of mycosis fungoides (2).

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Lambert, W.C., Schwartz, R.A. (1988). Dermatitic Precursors of Mycosis Fungoides. In: Skin Cancer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3790-7_12

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