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histiocytosis
Also known as Hand Schuller Christian disease, chronic Histiocytosis X
In medicine, histiocytosis is an excessive number of histiocytes (tissue macrophages), and the term is also often used to refer to a group of rare diseases which share this sign as a characteristic. Occasionally and confusingly, the term histiocytosis is sometimes used to refer to individual diseases.
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Research
28,625 papers- Histiocytosis.Lancet (London, England) · 2021
- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and Other Histiocytic Lesions.Head and neck pathology · 2025
- International expert consensus recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis in adults.Blood · 2022
- Histiocytosis and the nervous system: from diagnosis to targeted therapies.Neuro-oncology · 2021
- Updates on Langerhans cell histiocytosis and other histiocytosis in children: invited review-challenges and novelties in paediatric tumours.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2025
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In medicine, histiocytosis is an excessive number of histiocytes (tissue macrophages), and the term is also often used to refer to a group of rare diseases which share this sign as a characteristic. Occasionally and confusingly, the term histiocytosis is sometimes used to refer to individual diseases.
According to the Histiocytosis Association, 1 in 200,000 children in the United States are born with histiocytosis each year. HAA also states that most of the people diagnosed with histiocytosis are children under the age of 10, although the disease can afflict adults. The disease usually occurs from birth to age 15.