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- Title
Secondary pancreatic involvement of mycosis fungoides detected by a clinically palpable mass.
- Authors
Kaplanski, G.; Koeppel, M.C.; Deharo, C.; Durand, J.M.; Andrac, L.; Sayag, J.
- Abstract
A patient with a 4-year history of mycosis fungoides, who presented a pancreatic spreading of the disease, detected by a clinically palpable mass, is reported and discussed with a review of the literature. Mycosis fungoides (MF) is a T cell lymphoma primarily localized to the skin. Laparoscopic staging and autopsy studies, however, have shown that lymph node involvement or visceral spreading is common in the course of the disease [1-3]. Among visceral manifestations of MF, pancreas infiltration is found in 20-40% of autopsied cases [1, 2, 4]. Occurrence of a palpable pancreatic mass has never been described. We report a patient with a long-standing MF, and a secondary pancreatic extension detected by a palpable mass.
- Subjects
DISEASE complications; METASTASIS; MYCOSIS fungoides; PANCREATIC tumors; SKIN tumors; TREATMENT effectiveness
- Publication
Dermatology (10188665), 1994, Vol 189, Issue 4, p406
- ISSN
1018-8665
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1159/000246890