Abstract:Variably acid-fast coccoid forms, suggestive of acid-fast, cell-wall-deficient forms of mycobacteria, were observed in microscopy of sections of skin from three patients with mycosis fungoides. Similar coccoid forms were also seen in sections of the heart, lung, liver, lymph nodes, connective tissue, and other organs of one of them who died, and in biopsy material from lymph nodes obtained one year antemortem in that patient. The present findings of microbes in mycosis fungoides may be related to the previous … Show more
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