Histological features of "pagetoid reticulosis" (Woringer-Kolopp) in pre-mycosis fungoides

The case of a 66-year-old female with chronic skin lesions is described, which clinically resembled parakeratosis variegata but histologically showed the pattern of "pagetoid reticulosis" (Woringer-Kolopp). The intraepidermal pagetoid cells were lymphoid cells which, by electron microscopy, could be identified as small Sézary cells. The intraepidermal presence of numerous atypical reticulum cells does not support the theory of "pagetoid reticulosis" as a separate nosological entity, but rather stresses the epidermotropic character of (pre-)mycosis fungoides just known from intraepidermal Pautrier microabscesses.