Combined folliculotropic/syringotropic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma without epidermal involvement: Report of 2 cases and pathogenic implications

Human Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1216-1220

  Jacobs, M Amanda ^a   Kocher, William ^a   Murphy, George F ^a,b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 545 Jefferson Alumni Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

CD1a; Immunohistochemistry; Langerhans' cells; Mycosis fungoides; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DISEASE DURATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

EID: 0345017659     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(03)00401-5     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Sleater JP, Murphy GF: Cutaneous Lymphoma, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin, ed 2. New York, Mcgraw-Hill, 2000, pp 1370-1380
2. Tannous Z, Baldassano MF, Li VW, et al: Syringolymphoid hyperplasia and follicular mucinosis in a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. J Am Acad Dermatol 41:303-308, 1999
3. Zelger B, Sepp N, Weyrer K, et al: Syringotropic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: A variant of mycosis fungoides? Br J Dermatol 130:765-769, 1994
4. Esche C, Sander CA, Zumdick M, et al: Further evidence that syringolymphoid hyperplasia with alopecia is a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Arch Dermatol 134:753-745, 1998
5. Rongioletti F, Smoller B: The histologic value of adnexal (eccrine gland and follicle) infiltration in mycosis fungoides. J Cutaneous Pathol 27:406-409, 2000
6. Tomaszewinski MM, Lupton GP, Krishnan J, et al: Syringolymphoid hyperplasia with alopecia. J Cutan Pathol 21:520-526, 1994
7. Burg G, Schmockel CH: Syringolymphoid hyperplasia with alopecia: A syringotropic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma? Dermatology 184:306-307, 1992
8. Dubin DB, Hurowitz JC, Brettler D, et al: Adenotropic T-cell lymphoma presenting with generalized anhidrosis, progressive alopecia, puritus and Sjogren's syndrome. J Am Acad Dermatol 38:493-497, 1998
9. Magro C, Crowson AN, Kovatich A, et al: Pityriasis lichenoides: A clonal T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder. HUM PATHOL 33:788-795, 2002
10. Bonta MD, Tannous ZS, Demierre M, et al: A Rapidly progressing mycosis fungoides presenting as follicular mucinosis. J Am Acad Dermatol 43:635-640, 2000
11. Lancer HA, Bronstein BR, Nakagawa H, et al: Follicular mucinosis: A detailed morphologic and immunopathologic study. J Am Acad Dermatol 10:760-768, 1984
12. Gilliam AC, Lessin SR, Wilson DM, et al: Folliculotropic mycosis fungoides with large-cell transformation presenting as dissecting cellulitis of the scalp. J Cutan Pathol 24:169-175, 1997
13. MacKie RM: Initial event in mycosis fungoides of the skin is viral infection of epidermal Langerhans' cells. Lancet 2:283-285, 1981
14. McMillan EM, Beeman K, Wasik R, et al: Demonstration of OKT-6-reactive cells in mycosis fungoides. J Am Acad Dermatol 6:880-887, 1982
15. Murphy GF, Katz S, Kligman AM: Topical tretinoin replenishes CD la-positive epidermal Langerhans' cells in chronically photodamaged human skin. J Cutan Pathol 25:30-34, 1998
16. Gilliam AC, Kremer IB, Yoshida Y, et al: The human hair follicle: A reservoir of CD40-positive B7-deficient Langerhans' cells that repopulate epidermis after UVB exposure. J Invest Dermtol 110:422-427, 1998
17. Di Girolamo W, Goni J, Laguens RP: Langerhans' cells in squamous metaplasia of the human uterine cervix. Gynecol Ostet Invest 19:38-41, 1985
18. Hosokawa S, Shinzato M, Kaneko C, et al: Studies on Langerhans' cells in the tracheal squamous metaplasia of vitamin A deficient rats. Adv Exp Med Biol 329:617-621, 1993
19. Bani D, Pimpinelli N, Moretti S, et al: Langerhans' cells and mycosis fungoides: A critical overview of their pathogenic role in the disease. Clin Exp Dermatol 15:7-12, 1990