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Fatal squamous cell carcinoma following whole body electron beam therapy and photochemotherapy for mycosis fungoides
Author(s) -
WRIGHT STEVE,
KENNEDY CAMERON
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1984.tb00755.x
Subject(s) - mycosis fungoides , basal cell , dermatology , medicine , pathology , lymphoma
Summary The development of fatal metastatic squamous cell carcinoma in a patient with poikiloderma atrophicans vasculare, following treatment with whole body electron beam therapy and photochemotherapy is described. The place of electron beam therapy and photochemotherapy in the treatment of mycosis fungoides is discussed, and the conclusion drawn that the two should be used together only with caution.