Pautrier's abscess
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An eosinophil-rich pleomorphic intradermal cellular infiltration with focal collections of reticular cells, seen within the epidermis in mycosis fungoides and reticulum cell sarcoma.
Bibliography
- C. V. Moore:
Mycosis fungoides.
In: P. B. Beeson and W. McDermott, editors: Cecil-Loeb Textbook of Medicine. 12th edition, Philadelphia, Saunders, 1967: 1093.
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