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A chronic malignant T-cell lymphoma of the skin. In the late stages the lymph nodes and viscera are affected.

A very fatal disease, with fungous tumors, cachexia, and much pain.

Syn.: granuloma fungoides, granuloma sarcomatodes, inflammatory fungoid neoplasm, ulcerative scrofuloderma, eczema scrofuloderma, eczema tuberculatum, fibroma fungoides, lymphoderma perniciosa, sarcomatosis generaliis. A skin disease of slowly malignant course, characterized in the beginning by numerous areas of circumscribed itching dermatitis, and later by the development of fungoid tumors which tend to ulcerate and ultimately produce a fatal cachexia. The disease is of unknown etiology. It gets its name from the fungoid nature of the growths in its later stages. It has been classed as a granuloma or sarcoma. [Gr. + Lat. + Gr.]