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familial histiocytic reticulosis

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reticulosis /re·tic·u·lo·sis/ (rĕ-tik″u-lo´sis) an abnormal increase in cells derived from or related to the reticuloendothelial cells.
familial histiocytic reticulosis , histiocytic medullary reticulosis a fatal hereditary disorder marked by anemia, granulocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, phagocytosis of blood cells, diffuse proliferation of histiocytes, and enlargement of the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes.
malignant midline reticulosis , polymorphic reticulosis a form of angiocentric immunoproliferative lesion involving midline structures of the nose and face.

familial histiocytic reticulosis
Etymology: L, familia, household; Gk, histion, web, kytos, cell; L, reticulum, little net; Gk, osis, condition
a hereditary disease, transmitted as an autosomal-recessive trait, characterized by anemia, granulocytopenia, and thrombocytopenia. Phagocytosis of blood cells and infiltration of bone marrow by histiocytes commonly cause death in childhood. Also called familial hemophagocytic reticulosis.

reticulosis [rĕ-tik″u-lo´sis]
an abnormal increase in cells derived from or related to the reticuloendothelial cells.
familial histiocytic reticulosis (histiocytic medullary reticulosis) a fatal hereditary disorder marked by anemia, granulocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, phagocytosis of blood cells, diffuse proliferation of histiocytes, and enlargement of the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes.
midline malignant reticulosis lethal midline granuloma thought to be due to lymphoma.
pagetoid reticulosis a solitary skin lesion of long duration and slow growth characterized histologically by large numbers of abnormal mononuclear cells infiltrating the epidermis with an underlying reactive mixed dermal infiltrate.


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