ALLERGIC DERMATITIS SIMULATING LYMPHOBLASTOMA

Abstract

Some years ago a woman consulted me on behalf of her husband, who was suffering from an obstinate eruption of many years' standing. The man had been to innumerable physicians and hospitals, receiving a different diagnosis from almost every physician and submitting to therapeutic measures of all descriptions. The condition had finally been diagnosed as mycosis fungoides. The clinical diagnosis had just been confirmed histologically by a prominent pathologist, and although the patient had not been told, his wife had been given to understand that the prognosis was hopeless. When I examined the man I was not at all convinced that the disease was mycosis fungoides. In the light of a number of similar eruptions which I had seen at intervals over many years, I made a tentative diagnosis of allergic dermatitis, probably on an environmental basis, and advised the patient's removal to different surroundings. My first observation of a