Histiocytic and dendritic cell neoplasm cases were obtained from the files of the Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, from 1990 to 2015, with the institutional ...

Histiocytic disorders are a group of disorders arising from an over-production of histiocytic white blood cells called histiocytes. ‘Histiocytosis’, meaning ‘tissue cell’, is a general ...

Most histiocytic sarcomas are treated as high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas but the prognosis seems very poor. 1, 3 The pathogenesis of the histiocytic sarcomas is not well understood.

Histiocytic disorders in children are marked by the abnormal proliferation of cells from the mononuclear phagocyte system, which includes dendritic cells, monocytes, and macrophages. These cells ...

Chronic Histiocytic Intervillositis (CHI) is a rare disorder of placenta which prevents the passage of nutrients and waste products between the mother and fetus causing danger to the unborn child.

Conclusion We report three patients with histiocytic disorders harboring novel alterations who had sustained responses to off-label kinase inhibitors specific to their histiocytic disorder. Pathogenic ...

Pulmonary Mucormycosis in Acute Histiocytic Leukemia Authors: Mario Stefanini, M.D., and Salvatore Allegra, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published May 30, 1957 N Engl J Med 1957;256: 1026 - 1030 ...

Chronic histiocytic intervillositis (CHI) is a pregnancy disorder and affects placenta. Placenta is the tissue that connects the mother and the fetus, includes blood arteries inside the structures ...

The test found that Wolff had an extremely rare, aggressive blood cancer called histiocytic sarcoma. Only about 300 patients are diagnosed with the condition each year in the U.S. Gounder, an ...

Background: Dendritic and histiocytic cell sarcomas (DHCS) are ultra-rare malignant neoplasms with morphological and immunotypic features of histiocytes. Incidence rates are unknown, it is estimated ...

Histiocytic sarcoma is an aggressive cancer of immune cells, and although extremely rare in humans, it affects around one-in-five flat-coated retrievers. Genome-wide association surveys of 177 ...

How they did it — The researchers looked at shared genetic risk for histiocytic sarcoma across the three dog breeds, otherwise known as a genome-wide association study. Scientists use these ...