Mycosis fungoides is an unusual malignancy of helper T-lymphocyte origin which presents initiaily with skin disease and progresses to the lymph nodes, peripheral blood, and viseral organs, and frequently results in death.
A 51-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital in October, 1990 for the evaluation of a painful reddish brown tumor with ulceration of 6 months' duration on the abdomen. Lymphadenopathy was not present, and routine laboratory examinations
revealed
negative or within normal limits. She was diagnosed as mycosis fungoides with stage Ilb according to the committee on staging and classification of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and treated with chemotherapy regimen, BAM-M consisted of Bleomycin.
Adriamycin, Methotrexate and topical nitrogen mustard. She achieved complete remission of the tumor with five cycles of BAM-M chemotherapy.
We report favorable response after BAM-M chemotherapy in a patient with advanced stage of mycosis fungoides(TNM Iib). (Kor J Dermatol 1993;31(4):643~648)
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