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Pure cutaneous relapsing Langerhans cell histiocytosis in an adult Volume 8, numéro 7, October - November 1998

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Department of Dermatology, Federico II University of Naples, via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy.
  • Page(s) : 501-2
  • Année de parution : 1998

The histiocytic syndromes represent a group of rare diseases characterized by the proliferation of mononuclear phagocyte system cells [1]. Migrating from the blood to other compartments these cells form macrophages, Kupffer cells, histiocytes, microgliacytes, osteophages, interdigital cells, and Langerhans cells [2]. The histiocytic syndromes were classified in 1987 [3] by the "Histiocytic Society" into the following classes: [...]