Rare finding in a patient with Mycosis fungoides – sensorimotor axonal polyneuropathy

Abstract

We report the case of a 62-year old patient who presented a rare association of Mycosis fungoides, a subtype of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and sensorimotor axonal neuropathy. Usually, leptomeningeal dissemination and central nervous system involvement are much more frequently encountered in cases of Mycosis fungoides with extracutaneous spread and only few case reports describe the involvement of peripheral nerves. The challenge in our case was to correlate a possible etiopathogenic factor with the polyneuropathy. Although, it was most probably a paraneoplastic manifestation, the associated neuropathy could have had other possible pathogenic mechanisms.

Keywords

• cutaneous lymphoma
• sensorimotor axonal neuropathy
• mycosis fungoides