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Rosai-Dorfman disease: earlier spontaneous regression of skin lesions relative to nasal, pharyngeal, and bone lesions Volume 30, numéro 2, March-April 2020

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1 Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo,
2 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
4 Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is an uncommon benign histiocytic proliferative disorder characterized by massive bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy [1]. More than 40% of RDD patients have extranodal lesions in locations such as the skin, orbit, respiratory tract and bones [2]. Of these extranodal lesions, cutaneous lesions are the commonest. We report an RDD patient with subcutaneous, nasal, pharyngeal and fibular lesions. Notably, the subcutaneous lesions showed spontaneous regression, whereas the [...]