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We read with interest the recent article by Cerroni and colleagues¹ on the topic of follicular mucinosis (FM). We would like to emphasize several points made in the article as well as clarify others on the basis of our experience with this disorder.

First, we agree that there are no clinical criteria that can be strictly applied to distinguish cases of primary or "benign" FM from cases of mycosis fungoides (MF). However, generally in patients who have limited disease at the time of presentation, most often of the head and neck, the condition tends to have a benign course.^2-4 Although it is true that facial lesions can occur in MF-associated FM, we have described 7 patients who had multiple papular lesions of the head and neck that have not progressed to malignancy despite T-cell clonality in 5 of the patients (mean follow-up, 132 months).⁵ In our subset of patients, we . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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