Korean J Dermatol.
1996 Dec;34(6):988-992.
Favorable Effect of electron Beam Therapy in Mycosis Fungoides
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- 1Department of Dermatology, Chonnam University School of Medicine, Kwangju, Korea.
Abstract
- A 47-year-old woman visited the hospital in 1989 for the evaluation of severely pruritic reddish to brownish patches of 3 year's duration on the face, trunk, back, upper and lower extremities. With the diagnosis of mycosis fungoides(premycotic stage), she had been treated with topical steroids, nitrogen musterd 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 cherriotherapy(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 complete 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 electrori beam therapy.
