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ReviewVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2025

Updates on Langerhans cell histiocytosis and other histiocytosis in children: invited review-challenges and novelties in paediatric tumours.

Laura Galluzzo Mutti, Jennifer Picarsic

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Review in Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  7. Bile Duct Targeting or Preservation: Contrasting Liver Histology in Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and Disseminated Juvenile Xanthogranuloma.Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society
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Laura Galluzzo MuttiHtal. Nacional de Pediatría Dr. Prof. J. P Garrahan, Hospital Nacional de Pediatría Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jennifer PicarsicUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. jpcrsc@pitt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3718-6422

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) family lesions, and Rosai-Dorfman-Destombes disease (RDD) are now classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the heading of histiocytic/dendritic cell neoplasms. Each disease may manifest as a focal lesion, as multiple lesions, or as a widespread aggressive systemic disease with visceral organ involvement. Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare systemic disease process of adults with limited cases in children. Challenges in diagnosis and novel disease presentations, including ALK-positive histiocytosis (a newly recognized WHO entity), mixed histiocytosis, and secondary histiocytic lesions following a prior leukemia/lymphoma are also discussed. Malignant histiocytic neoplasms (MHN) are distinct high-grade histiocytosis, which while rare in childhood occur both as primary disease and as secondarily after a prior hematologic malignancy. Of note, despite its name, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is not considered a histiocytic neoplasm and does not define one specific disease "entity." HLH is a spectrum of hyperinflammation with various triggers and is not covered for the purposes of this targeted review.

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HistiocytosisHistiocytosis, Langerhans-CellHistiocytosis, SinusXanthogranuloma, JuvenileChildErdheim-Chester DiseaseHumansBRAFLangerhans cell histiocytosisMalignant histiocytosisXanthogranuloma

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