[Primary cutaneous lymphoma: experience with 10 cases]

We report 10 patients with cutaneous lymphoma along with their clinical findings, staging, histopathologic characteristics by light microscopy, and results of anti-HTLV antibody screening. The immunotype was T cell in all. Three patients were diagnosed as having Lymphomatoid papulosis: one of them evolved to Mycosis fungoides, another showed progression to Immunoblastic lymphoma and a third remains as such. Two patients had a long standing Mycosis fungoides and, finally, 5 cases had peripheral T-cell lymphoma. Of the latter, 2 progressed rapidly to death.