Mycosis-fungoides-type cutaneous T cell lymphoma of the hands and soles: A variant causing delay in diagnosis and adequate treatment of patients with palmoplantar eczema

Dermatology

Volumn 205, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 239-244

  Spieth, Konstanze ^a   Grundmann Kollmann, Marcella ^a   Runne, Ulf ^a   Staib, Gyde ^c   Fellbaum, Christian ^a   Wolter, Manfred ^a   Kaufmann, Roland ^a   Gille, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma; Mycosis fungoides; Palmoplantar eczema; Palmoplantar psoriasis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; METHOXSALEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HAND PALM; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; REMISSION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INFILTRATE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STANDARD; SYMPTOM; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PUVA THERAPY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036974787     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065862     Document Type: Article

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