Granulomatous slack skin: A distinct disorder or a variant of mycosis fungoides?

About 75% of cutaneous lymphomas belong to the group of T-cell lymphomas, M ycosis fungoides is the most common entity in this group. Granulomatous sla ck skin is a rare form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma closely related to myco sis fungoides, We present here a patient with areas of lax skin for several years who developed a generalized erythroderma with associated immunoactiv ation and a deterioration in his general condition, This report discusses c linically and histologically the differential diagnoses, namely granulomato us slack skin and granulomatous mycosis fungoides, and suggests that these 2 disorders are only variants in the broad spectrum of a single disease.