Favorable effect of chemotherapy with BAM-M in mycosis fungoides.
- Author:
Sang Keun HA
;
Min Ah PARK
;
Young Ho WON
;
Inn Ki CHUN
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Mycosis Fungoides;
BAM-M Chemotherapy
- MeSH:
Abdomen;
Bleomycin;
Classification;
Doxorubicin;
Drug Therapy*;
Female;
Humans;
Lymph Nodes;
Lymphatic Diseases;
Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous;
Mechlorethamine;
Methotrexate;
Middle Aged;
Mycosis Fungoides*;
Skin Diseases;
T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer;
Ulcer
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
1993;31(4):643-648
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Mycosis fungoides is an unusual malignancy of helper T-lymphocyte origin which presents initiaily with skin disease and progresses to the lymph nodes, peripheral blood. and viseral organs, and frequently results in death. A 51-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital in October, 1930 for the evaluation of a painful reddish brown tumor with ulceration of 6 months duration on the abdomen. Lymphadenopathy was not present, and routine laboratory examinations revealed negative or, within normal limits. She was diagnosed as mycosis fungoides with stage IIb according to the commirtee on staging and classification of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and treated with chemotherapy;regimen, BAM-M consisted of Bleomycin, Adriamycin, Methotrexate and topical nitrogen mustard. she achieved complete remission of the tumor with five cycles of BAM-M chemotherapy. We report favorable response after BAM-M chemotherapy in a pacent with advanced stage of mycosis fungoides(TNM IIb).
