title: Mycosis fungoides: cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
abstract: Most patients with mycosis fungoides are between 40 and 60 years of age. The disease has three clinical stages: (1) the premycotic, or patch, stage, consisting of macular, scaling, faint pink to red pruritic patches, usually on unexposed surfaces; (2) the mycotic, or plaque, stage, consisting of reddish, purple-brown plaques, often annular in shape and symmetric in distribution, and (3) the tumor stage, consisting of red-brown to violaceous, dome-shaped, firm tumors with a predilection for the face and body folds. The Sézary syndrome is a leukemic variant. Treatment depends on the extent of disease and includes topical or systemic chemotherapy, radiotherapy and psoralen plus long-wave ultraviolet light therapy.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Zaim
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Grinkemeyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009182:Mycosis Fungoides / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D012751:Sezary Syndrome / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*