The histiocytoses are rare disorders characterized by the accumulation of macrophage,
dendritic cell, or monocyte-derived cells in various tissues and organs of children and adults. …

Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) is an orphan disease of clonal dendritic cells which
may affect any organ of the body. Most of the knowledge about the diagnosis and therapy is …

Acute respiratory failure (ARF) in patients with cancer is frequently a fatal event. To identify
factors associated with survival of cancer patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for …

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) can affect children and adults with a wide variety of
clinical manifestations, including unifocal, single-system multifocal, single-system pulmonary (…

Background Interplays between Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of
tuberculosis (TB) in human and host professional phagocytes, namely macrophages (Mϕs) and …

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors have revolutionized the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia
and are increasingly used for other indications. Fluid retention, however, including pleural …

In the early 1950s Lichtenstein introduced the term histiocytosis X to describe a group of
syndromes with seemingly unrelated clinical features, but whose pathological findings were …

Objectives The predominance of extramuscular manifestations (eg, skin rash, arthralgia,
interstitial lung disease [ILD]) as well as the low frequency of muscle signs in anti–melanoma …

Background Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is common in patients with HIV infection but
may also occur in patients with other causes of immunodeficiency, including hematologic and …

Cytokines play an important role in granuloma formation, but the extent that cytokine profiles
are similar in different granulomatous diseases and whether differences in the …