MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES

1 April 1933

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology

Vol. 27 (4) , 631-642
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1933.01450040638008

Abstract

Mycosis fungoides was first described by Alibert in the year 1812 and has been intensively studied both clinically and histologically throughout its long history. It is still an uncommon disorder, and on account of its complicated clinical features and apparently variable histologic structure it has presented problems the solution of which has baffled most investigators. Confusion has been injected by reports of cases that terminated in leukemia.¹Other cases are recorded in which the histologic process was interpreted by the reporter to be that of Hodgkin's disease²or of lymphosarcoma.³With improved methods of staining and newly discovered tests for distinguishing cell characteristics, both dermatologic and general pathologists have attempted to solve the problem. Much valuable information has been added by these researches, but still the problem remains unsolved. The question of its being a diseasesui generisor merely a link in a chain

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