Mycosis fungoides, known as Alibert-Bazin syndrome or granuloma fungoides, is the most common form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
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10 Facts About Mycosis fungoides
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Symptoms of mycosis fungoides are categorized into three clinical stages: the patch stage, the plaque stage, and the tumour stage.
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Advanced stage of mycosis fungoides is characterized by generalized erythroderma with severe pruritus and scaling.
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Mycosis fungoides is the most common type of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, but there are many other types of CTCL that have nothing to do with mycosis fungoides and these disorders are treated differently.
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Traditionally, mycosis fungoides has been divided into three stages: premycotic, mycotic and tumorous.
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Accurate staging of mycosis fungoides is essential to determine appropriate treatment and prognosis.
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Mycosis fungoides is more common in males than in females with differences in incidence across various racial groups reported in different studies.
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The incidence of mycosis fungoides was seen to be increasing between 2000 to 2020, although certain regions have demonstrated some stabilization.
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Mycosis fungoides was first described in 1806 by French dermatologist Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert.
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The name mycosis fungoides is very misleading—it loosely means "mushroom-like fungal disease".
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