Human Pathology
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 505-511 , May 2005

A review of 55 cases of cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia: reassessment of the histopathologic findings leading to reclassification of 4 lesions as cutaneous marginal zone lymphoma and 19 as pseudolymphomatous folliculitis

Received 15 April 2004 ,Accepted 8 February 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2005.02.012

Human Pathology
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 505-511 , May 2005

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