Clonal rearrangement of the T cell receptor beta gene in the circulating
lymphocytes of erythrodermic follicular mucinosis
PE LeBoit, EA Abel, ML Cleary, RT Hoppe, ML Williams, GS Wood and TG Parslow
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, San
Francisco 94143.
Follicular mucinosis is a condition characterized by the abnormal
accumulation of acidic mucopolysaccharides in hair follicles. It is
classically described as occurring idiopathically in young persons and
within the infiltrates of mycosis fungoides in older individuals. We report
a 12-year-old girl who had erythrodermic follicular mucinosis,
hypereosinophilia, circulating Sezary cells, and both immunophenotypic and
genotypic evidence of T cell neoplasia. Erythrodermic follicular mucinosis
may represent an unusual variant of the Sezary syndrome, which to date has
not been described in children or adolescents.
Volume 71,
Issue 5,
pp. 1329-1333,
05/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by The American Society of Hematology