A 47-year-old woman visited the hospital in 1989 for the evaluation of severely pruritic red dish to brownish patches of 3 year's duration on the face, trunk, back, upper and lower extremities. We the diagnosis of mycosis fungoides(premycotic
stage),
she had been she had been treated with topical steroids, nitrogen mustard and PUVA with a recurrence. Then five years later, a tumorous skin lesion with ulceration developed on the left wrist joint, which did not respond to the previous topical
therapies and chemotherapy(BAM-M) . So we tried electron beam therapy with a high-dose radiation (4,000cGy, 6 MeV). The electron beam therapy for 1 month resulted in a completed remission, which did not reveal any evidence of relapse during the
one
year
follow-up period. As the electron beam therapy in mycosis fungoides has not yet been reported in Korean literature, we report a case of mycosis fungoides of advanced stage(TNM II b) showing a favorable response to the electron beam therapy. (Kor
J
Dermatol 1996;34(6) : 988~992)
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