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Type D (CD8+) lymphomatoid papulosis in a patient with classic (CD4+) mycosis fungoides Volume 28, numéro 2, March-April 2018

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1 Department of Dermatology,
2 Department of Pathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Lymphomatoid papulosis (LyP), a benign entity of primary cutaneous CD30-positive lymphoproliferative disorders, is characterized histopathologically by infiltrates of large CD30-positive abnormal lymphoid cells [1, 2]. Herein, we report the case of a patient with type D LyP that arose in a mycosis fungoides (MF) patch under maintenance conditions. Although the infiltrating tumour cells in the MF patch expressed CD4, large CD8-positive abnormal cells were observed in the LyP lesion.The patient was [...]