Mycosis fungoides in a patient with Hansen's disease

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Abstract

Introduction: Mycosis fungoides is the most common form of extranodal cutaneous non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Skin lesions are the main manifestation of the disease, which, although rare, has a rapid progression to death.

Objective: to present a case of mycosis fungoides in a 52-year-old patient.

Case presentation: Black male patient with individual pathological history of arterial hypertension and Hansen's disease. He had several hospital admissions, this time due to tumor lesions on the skin, which extended to join together, forming larger lesions; therefore, a series of complementary laboratory and imaging tests were performed, as well as a biopsy of the skin lesions, which allowed the diagnosis of mycosis fungoides. On his third day of hospital admission, he died.

Conclusions: We present the case of a patient with mycosis fungoides in whom the diagnosis was not established in the early stages of the disease, due to the Hansen's disease that he presented; hence the importance of suspecting this disease in all patients with tumoral and nodular skin lesions.

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2025-07-17

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Gallego Sánchez JA, Román Rodríguez A, Rivera Veloz DM, Ortiz Cabrera Y. Mycosis fungoides in a patient with Hansen’s disease. scalpelo [Internet]. 2025 Jul. 17 [cited 2025 Oct. 8];6. Available from: https://rescalpelo.sld.cu/index.php/scalpelo/article/view/331

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