We are presenting the case of a 54-year-old female patient, smoker, known with mycosis fungoides since 2007, with a certain diagnosis since 2014, currently being treated with acitretin 40 mg per day, who was referred first to our Clinic for the presence of a generalized facial eruption constituted by well-defined erythematous tumour plaques and placards, with a histopathological picture compatible with lymphoma. Soon she developed tumours with ulcerations, purulent secretions and serohematic crusts on the surface, generalized pruritus and scratching lesions. We decided to treat with Imiquimod cream five days a week and two days pause on a lesion located at the level of the right shoulder, with a favourable surprising evolution. A puncture-biopsy was performed on the left submandibular lymphadenopathy, the appearance being of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, reason why the hematologist who cared for the patient decided to initiate the COP regimen.

ESDR508 - Complex case of mycosis fungoides – possible treatment with imiquimod

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