title: [Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy--a disseminated form of the Rosai-Dorfman syndrome].
abstract: A 20 year-old black male presented with a generalized lymphadenopathy, skin papules with maximum involvement of the head and trunk region, and elevated temperature. Ultrasound, CT and bone scans revealed infiltration of the kidneys and bones. Surgical specimens of the cervical lymph nodes showed massive infiltration of sinuses by histiocytes with engulfed lymphocytes and granulocytes in their cytoplasm. A similar finding was found in the excised dermis and nasopharyngeal mucosa. Immunohistochemical investigations showed a strong positive reaction of sinusoidal macrophages with anti S100 protein, anti alpha-1 antitrypsin and alpha-1 antichymotrypsin antibodies, negative CD1a. The engulfed granulocytes were positive with lysozyme and MAC387 antibodies; lymphocytes reacted with antilymphocytic antibodies L26, HLADR, UCHL-1 and OPD4 only rarely, possibly due to alterations of their cell membranes in the cytoplasmic environment of histiocytes. Occasional plasma cells were also entrapped in the macrophages. The best results were obtained with CD3 antibody which showed focal predominance of phagocytosed T cells. These findings confirm a nonselective nature of the emperipolesis. In situ hybridization with probes EBER and BHLF against Epstein-Barr virus sequences was negative. The pacient was treated by multidrug chemotherapy with a moderate regression of the infiltrates. The symptoms of the disease persisted for 10 months from the treatment start but further course of the disease is uncertain. The patients is lost to follow up.
authors.affiliation: Hlavův I. patologickoanatomický ústav 1. LF UK a VFN, Praha.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kodetová
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kodet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Syrůcek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trnĕný
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015618:Histiocytosis, Sinus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male