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Chronic granulomatous dermatosis as a presenting sign of a lymphoepithelioid T-cell lymphoma (Lennert lymphoma) Volume 24, issue 3, May-June 2014

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1 Department of Dermatology,
Severance Hospital,
Cutaneous Biology Research Institute,
2 Department of Pathology,
Yonsei University College of Medicine,
50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu,
Seoul 120-752, Seoul, Korea

Lennert lymphoma (LL), under the WHO classification, is defined as a “lymphoepithelioid cell variant of the peripheral T-cell lymphomas, unspecified”, due to its lack of specific clinical features. Lennert lymphoma is primarily a nodal disease which presents with lymphadenopathy, with characteristic pathologic features of epithelioid histiocytes and atypical small lymphoid cells [1]. While skin involvement of LL is known to be infrequent, we report a case of LL that initially presented as atypical [...]