PRIMARY MALIGNANT-LYMPHOMA CUTIS

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 117  (7) , 750-753
Abstract
Between 1934 and 1975, 16 patients with primary malignant lymphoma cutis were seen. The lesions were purplish, firm, dermal or hypodermal (or both) nodules, tumors and plaques. In all 16 the histopathologic diagnosis was diffuse non-Hodgkin''s lymphoma; 12 were considered to have prognostically bad lymphomas. The prognosis of primary malignant lymphoma cutis is significantly more favorable than implied by the stage IV designation that such localized extranodal involvement would have required under the Rye clinical staging classification.