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Med Cutan Iber Lat Am 2005; 33 (2)

Invisible mycosis fungoides

Morales CAM, Bassas VJ, Bordel GMT, Arnal CE, Aragoneses FH, Miranda RA

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 69-72
PDF size: 332.66 Kb.


ABSTRACT

A 80 -year-old woman who complain for a persistent pruritus, which began a year before i ´s reported. There were not evident lesions except for excoriations on the upper back. A biopsy from normal-looking skin was compatible with mycosis fungoides . Three months after the patient developed some purpuric patches on her trunk and thighs which also showed histopathological features of mycosis fungoides with hemorrhage, clinically compatibe with the pigmented purpura-like variant of mycosis fungoides.


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