Is Mycosis Fungoides an Entity?

Unusual Manifestation of Malignant Reticulosis of the Skin: Cutaneous Lesion Simulating Parapsoriasis Guttata

“…This disease is characterized by so-called premycotic eruption which is difficult to differentiate histologically from banal inflammatory dermatoses. In addition, the tendency is to think that mycosis fungoides d'emblée is histopathologically a reticulum cell sarcoma or another m alignant lymphoma from the beginning [1,9]. Our first case had had the papular eruption which showed complete regression followed by repeated recurrences for about seven years prior to the development of sarcomatous change in spite of the pre sence of infiltration consisting of seemingly large m alignant reticulum cells from the beginning.…”

“…Many authors have accepted th at mycosis fungoides, especially of the Alibert-Bazin type, has a distinct clinicopathologic picture even though it is still unsettled whether it represents a nosologic entity or not [1,2]. This disease is characterized by so-called premycotic eruption which is difficult to differentiate histologically from banal inflammatory dermatoses.…”

Cutaneous T‐cell Lymphoma in Colorado 1974–1991

“…The period from 1940 to 1970 was one of nosological confusion (7). Bluefarb, in a 1955 article, listed ten different opinions regarding the nature of the condition (8). Symmers stated that mycosis fungoides is a "clinical and pathologic nonexistent" (9).…”