MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES AND KINDRED CONDITIONS

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Recognition of a case of mycosis fungoides is easy after the tumors have formed; before, it is difficult. It is equally difficult if tumors have appeared without a premycotic or prefungoid period. Perhaps it is entirely unjustified to concede the existence of the last form, the so-called "forme fruste" of Brocq. Indeed, Brocq senses this by stating that it is nearly impossible to distinguish "mycosis d'emblée," as it is also called, from lymphosarcoma. There are three outstanding pictures in mycosis: an early or exanthematic stage, an intermediary stage in which an exanthem tends to become nodular, and a last or tumor stage in which vestiges of the earlier phases endure. At times the malady appears to arise spontaneously with tumors unheralded by any other skin lesion. The earlier skin manifestations of mycosis are manifold. They may resemble urticaria, prurigo mitis with lichenification, chronic scaling or vesicular eczema, psoriasis, parapsoriasis or

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