Non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Classification and external resources
MeSH D015616

Non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis refers to a family of histiocytosis characterized by the absence of Langerhans cells.[1]

Many manifest cutaneously.[2]

An example is Erdheim-Chester disease.[3]

References

  1. ^ Weitzman S, Jaffe R (September 2005). "Uncommon histiocytic disorders: the non-Langerhans cell histiocytoses". Pediatr Blood Cancer 45 (3): 256–64. doi:10.1002/pbc.20246. PMID 15547923. 
  2. ^ Philip T. Cagle; Timothy C. Allen; Roberto Barrios (1 December 2007). Color atlas and text of pulmonary pathology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 210–. ISBN 9780781782081. http://books.google.com/books?id=QtleIMhv9KAC&pg=PA210. Retrieved 14 November 2010. 
  3. ^ Rao RN, Chang CC, Uysal N, Presberg K, Shidham VB, Tomashefski JF (February 2005). "Fulminant multisystem non-langerhans cell histiocytic proliferation with hemophagocytosis: a variant form of Erdheim-Chester disease". Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 129 (2): e39–43. PMID 15679446. http://journals.allenpress.com/jrnlserv/?request=get-abstract&issn=0003-9985&volume=129&page=e39. 
WHO-I/Langerhans cell histiocytosis/
X-type histiocytosis
WHO-II/non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis/
Non-X histiocytosis
WHO-III/malignant histiocytosis
Ungrouped

M: MYL

cell/phys (coag, heme, immu, gran), csfs

rbmg/mogr/tumr/hist, sysi/epon, btst

drug (B1/2/3+5+6), btst, trns