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To the Editor: The cutaneous T-cell lymphomas include mycosis fungoides, the Sézary syndrome, and other sporadic primary T-cell proliferations in the skin.^1,2 The human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is a retrovirus that causes adult T-cell leukemia–lymphoma, which can also involve the skin and be difficult to distinguish from a primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Recently, several investigators have found the HTLV-I genome in DNA from primary cutaneous T-cell lymphomas and proposed a causal relation between that retrovirus and such lymphomas.^3,4,5 However, their studies have not always differentiated the diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma from that of smoldering adult T-cell . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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