Table 2.
Clinical characteristics of patients based on the different clinical variants of mycosis fungoides.
| Classification | Number of cases (%) | Sex |
Age, year median (range) |
Latent period, year median (range) |
Staging | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | Early | Advanced | ||||
| Classic type of MF (n = 68) | |||||||
| (i) Patch | 42 (48.8) | 19 | 23 | 42 (7–82) | 1 (0–27) | 42 | 0 |
| (ii) Plaque | 21 (24.4) | 11 | 10 | 48 (19–84) | 1 (0–30) | 21 | 0 |
| (iii) Tumoral | 4 (4.7) | 3 | 1 | 55 (31–59) | 7 (3–25) | 2 | 2 |
| (iv) Generalized erythroderma | 1 (1.2) | 1 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| Variant type of MF (n = 18) | |||||||
| (i) Hypopigmented | 5 (5.8) | 1 | 4 | 28 (15–34) | 3 (1–10) | 5 | 0 |
| (ii) Poikilodermic | 5 (5.8) | 2 | 3 | 44 (23–62) | 1 (0–55) | 5 | 0 |
| (iii) Solitary | 3 (3.5) | 2 | 1 | 31 (30–38) | 0 (0–6) | 3 | 0 |
| (iv) Hyperpigmented | 2 (2.3) | 0 | 2 | 32 (23–41) | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| (v) Folliculotropic | 1 (1.2) | 0 | 1 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| (vi) Pigmented purpura-like lesion | 1 (1.2) | 0 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| (vii) Hyperkeratotic | 1 (1.2) | 0 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 |