Haemophagocytic reticulosis. A state of chimerism?

Familial histiocytic reticulosis (familial haemophagocytic reticulosis).

The clinical and pathological findings are recorded in two siblings who died in early infancy from familial histiocytic (;haemophagocytic') reticulosis. The nature of this condition is obscure but probably represents a primary histiocytosis. The only other family on record is that described by Farquhar and Claireaux (1952) and by Farquhar, Macgregor, and Richmond (1958).

Familial haemophagocytic reticulosis.

Still's disease and the virus-associated haemophagocytic syndrome.

A 15-year-old male developed features of Still's disease. He was treated, with incomplete response, with aspirin and corticosteroids. Some 10 months after the onset he contracted chickenpox and became gravely ill. A diagnosis of histiocytic medullary reticulosis was made because erythrophagocytic histiocytes were detected in marrow aspirate films. Necropsy studies showed systemic infiltration b...

Technetium-99m sestamibi scintigraphy in monitoring patients with multiple myeloma.

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Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: from diagnostic challenges to predictive possibilities.

In 1832 Thomas Hodgkin described ‘some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen’ in seven individuals with enlargements of lymph nodes and spleen without inflammation or other significant pathological findings. His initial description resolved into a multiplicity of pathological entities over the years. Indeed, among this wide group of disorders, the leucose, syphilitic and tubercu...