Subcutaneous T-cell lymphoma. A clinical and histopathologic study of an additional case.
A case of a 62-year-old woman with recurrent subcutaneous nodules, fever and pancytopenia diagnosed as subcutaneous T-cell lymphoma is presented. Incision biopsy revealed lobular panniculitis with an inflammatory infiltrate of atypical T lymphocytes. She was treated with 7 courses of CHOP with transient remission, and she died after 17 months of disease from fatal hemorrhagic complications due to the hemophagocytic syndrome.
Maj
Joanna
J
Department of Dermatology, Wroclaw University School of Medicine, Wroclaw, Poland.
Kolodziej
Tomasz
T
Wozniak
Zdzislaw
Z
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016410:Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*