PATIENT Female, 72 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Histiocytic endometritis Symptoms: Vaginal discharge • fever • weakness MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: Endometrial and cervical biopsy Specialty: Pathology • Gynaecology. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Histiocytic or xanthogranulomatous endometritis, characterized by disappearance of endometrial mucosa and its replacement by sheets of lipid contai...

Histiocytoid Sweet's Syndrome is a rare inflammatory disease described in 2005 as a variant of the classical Sweet's Syndrome (SS). Histopathologically, the dermal inflammatory infiltrate is composed mainly of mononuclear cells that have a histiocytic appearance and represent immature myeloid cells. We describe a case of Histiocytoid Sweet's Syndrome in an 18-year-old man. Although this patient...

Histiocytic syndromes in children are divided into 3 classes: (i) Langerhans-cell histiocytosis (LCH) or Histiocytosis-X (HX), (ii) Hemophagocytic syndromes—Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FEL) and infection-associated hemophagocytic syndrome (IAHS) due to viruses (VAHS), and occasionally bacterial, fungal or parasitic, and (iii) Malignant histiocytic disorders(l). The lesional ...

Canine histiocytic malignancies represent a group of neoplasms with shared morphological features but diverse cellular origin and potentially divergent biologic behavior. The malignant histiocytic disease complex was first recognized in Bernese Mountain Dogs and it has been considered to be familial in this breed. Subsequently, improved diagnostic techniques expanded the list of predisposed bre...

Twenty seven adult patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma localised to either bone (Stage IE) or bone and regional lymph nodes (Stage IIE) were treated between 1967 and 1988. Median age was 53 years and the commonest histology (21 patients) was diffuse histiocytic lymphoma. Twenty-four patients were treated radically: 15 with radiation therapy (XRT) alone and nine with chemotherap...

introduction: kikuchi-fujimoto disease or histocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is a rare, benign, self-limited condition characterized by constitutional symptoms, lymphadenopathy, and skin lesions and often affects young adult females.the etiology is unknown although viruses and autoimmune mechanisms has been suggested. diagnosis is fundamentally based on the affected lymph node biopsy.the pati...