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3490225

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-10-30
pubmed:abstractText
Our combined ultrastructural, immunohistochemical, histologic, and clinical studies over the past five years have allowed us to compile diagnostic criteria useful in the evaluation of cutaneous lymphomas. As a group, mycosis fungoides (MF) patients could be distinguished from those with benign disorders of skin using ultrastructural morphometry (mean form factor and perimeter values), but with some overlap between groups. Another approach, the ultrastructural histogram method, however, clearly separated MF patients from patients with chronic dermatitis. Immunohistochemistry was useful in distinguishing cases of cutaneous peripheral T-cell lymphoma from MF cases on the basis of the occurrence of "novel phenotypes." Neoplastic T-cell infiltrates of skin can usually be distinguished from benign polyclonal T-cell infiltrates by the presence of one T-cell subset to the exclusion of others. Patients with convoluted B-cell lymphomas could also be distinguished from MF patients using ultrastructural morphometric dual parameter analysis. The diagnostic complexity of several cutaneous T-cell lymphoma cases is illustrated. We have emphasized in this study the strength of combining quantitative electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry, and histology in the diagnostic workup of cutaneous lymphomas. This integrative approach may be necessary to assure a definitive diagnosis in difficult cases.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0003-987X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
122
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1139-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-3-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
An ultrastructural morphometric and immunohistochemical analysis of cutaneous lymphomas and benign lymphocytic infiltrates of skin. Useful criteria for diagnosis.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports