The difficult—and often delayed—diagnosis of CTCL

• DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad2518
• Publication Date: 2015-10-07T21:46:30Z
• Authors: Jason Weed; Michael Girardi
• Keywords: Inflammation; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell; Humans; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous; 3. Good health

High-throughput sequencing of T cell receptors to define and quantify populations emerges as a diagnostic tool with the remarkable ability discriminate between CTCL benign inflammatory conditions (Kirsch et al., this issue).