Emergence of leprosy in a patient with mycosis fungoides

J Am Acad Dermatol. 1994 Feb;30(2 Pt 2):313-5. doi: 10.1016/s0190-9622(94)70030-3.

Abstract

A patient with mycosis fungoides that had progressed to tumor stage responded to chemotherapy and electron beam treatment, but 6 years later a peripheral neuropathy, extensive plaques, erythroderma, and enlarged pinnae containing acid-fast organisms developed while he was being treated with photopheresis. The skin lesions cleared with administration of rifampin and dapsone, but a reversal reaction biopsy specimen showed features of both mycosis fungoides and leprosy. This case raises the question of whether there may be an association between mycosis fungoides and leprosy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Dapsone / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Leprosy, Lepromatous / complications*
  • Leprosy, Lepromatous / drug therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycosis Fungoides / complications*
  • Mycosis Fungoides / drug therapy
  • Mycosis Fungoides / radiotherapy
  • Photopheresis
  • Rifampin / therapeutic use
  • Skin Diseases, Bacterial / complications*
  • Skin Diseases, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Skin Neoplasms / complications*
  • Skin Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Skin Neoplasms / radiotherapy

Substances

  • Dapsone
  • Rifampin