Crosti's syndrome
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A form of well-defined, slowly growing lymphomas with malignant development.
Bibliography
- A. Crosti:
Contributio alla conoscenza della pityriasis rubra pilaris di Divergie e dei suoi rapporti con sindromi vicine.
Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Sifilografia, Milano, 1930, 71: 305-340.
- A. Crosti:
Micosi fungoide e reticolo-istiocitomi cutanei maligni.
Minerva dermatologica, Torino, 1951, 26: 3-11.
- Stanley Jablonski:
Jablonski’s Dictionary of Syndromes & Eponymic diseases.
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 1991.
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