Histiocytosis

In medicine, histiocytosis is an excessive number of histiocytes, that is an excessive number of tissue macrophages, and is typically used to refer to a group of rare diseases which share this as a characteristic. Occasionally and confusingly it is sometimes used to refer to individual diseases.According to the Histiocytosis Association of America, 1 in 200,000 children in the United States are born with histiocytosis each year. HAA also states that most of the people diagnosed with histiocytosis are children under the age of 10. The University of California, San Francisco, states that the disease usually occurs from birth to age 15.Histiocytosis are both important in veterinary as well as human pathology. (From the Wikpedia article Histiocytosis.)

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Recent Publications on Histiocytosis:
Crystal-storing histiocytosis as a cause of symptomatic cardiac mass. Crystal-storing histiocytosis is a rare disorder that is typically...	18th November, 2009	Departments of Pathology, University of Maryland Medical System,	Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009 Nov;133(11):1861-4.
Common diagnostic challenges in the pathology of nonneoplastic lung diseases: a case-based review. We use a case-based format to review 4 relatively common, diagnostic...	18th November, 2009	Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor,	Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009 Nov;133(11):1782-92.
[Eosinophilic granuloma of the mandible--a case report] BACKGROUND: Langerhans cell histiocytosis is characterized by a clonal...	17th November, 2009	Klinik fur Mund-, Kiefer-, Gesichtschirurgie, Oralchirurgie, Luzerner	Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed. 2009;119(9):887-96.
Neurodegenerative central nervous system Langerhans cell histiocytosis and coincident hydrocephalus treated with vincristine/cytosine arabinoside. BACKGROUND: Central nervous system (CNS) complications of Langerhans cell...	13th November, 2009	Texas Children's Cancer Center/Hematology Service, Houston, Texas.	Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Nov 11. DOI Direct Link
Peritoneal histiocytic reaction associated with oxidised regenerated cellulose, a form of mucicarminophilic histiocytosis. BACKGROUND: Central nervous system (CNS) complications of Langerhans cell...	11th November, 2009		Pathology. 2009;41(6):598-600.
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Histiocytosis Therapy: Reports outline histiocytosis therapy research from Mansoura University, Faculty of Medicine	NewsRX:  Nov 15 2009 6:05AM Matching: histiocytosis

Histiocytosis Patents:
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7507410	Monoclonal antibody DS6, tumor-associated antigen CA6, and methods of use thereof
7538095	Genetic inhibition by double-stranded RNA
7541434	Polypeptide for a TRP channel family member, TRP-PLIK2, and splice variants
7547767	Growth arrest specific gene 6 peptides, antibodies, compositions, methods and uses
7550142	Anti-integrin antibodies, compositions, methods and uses
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