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splenic foamy macrophages
Friday 16 March 2007
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JRC:336 : Niemann-Pick’s disease (Spleen)
Etiology
mycobacterial infections (16189163)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)
- Mycobacterium avium complex infections
- Mycobacterium kansasii
- Mycobacterium avium intracellulare infections in AIDS
- Mycobacterium genavense in AIDS (8279457)
genetic metabolic diseases
- splenic storage diseases
- Gaucher disease
- Niemann-Pick disease type B (NPD-B)
systemic histiocytoses
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Erdheim-Chester disease (15509691)
- systemic juvenile xanthogranuloma
- malignant histiocytosis (7104067)
splenic destruction of cells
- immune thrombocytopenia (4039846, 4049543, 6684881)
- hemolytic anemia due to red cell adenosine deaminase (ADA) overproduction (4049543)
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with gold (4049543)
Case records
Case 12002 : Systemic granulomatosis in Mycobacterium avium intracellulare in combined immune deficiency.
See also
macrophagic infiltrations
- splenic macrophagic infiltration
References
Dunn P, Kuo MC, Sun CF. Pseudo-Gaucher cells in mycobacterial infection: a report of two cases. J Clin Pathol. 2005 Oct;58(10):1113-4. PMID: 16189163
Maschek H, Georgii A, Schmidt RE, Kirschner P, Böttger EC. Mycobacterium genavense. Autopsy findings in three patients. Am J Clin Pathol. 1994 Jan;101(1):95-9. PMID: 8279457
Solis OG, Belmonte AH, Ramaswamy G, et al. Pseudogaucher cells in Mycobacterium avium intracellulare infection in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Am J Clin Pathol 1986;85:233–5. PMID: 3946307
Links TP, Karrenbeld A, Steensma JT, et al. Fatal respiratory failure caused by pulmonary infiltration by pseudo-Gaucher cells. Chest 1992;101:265–6. PMID: 1729081
Beutler E. Gaucheri’s disease. N Engl J Med 1991;325:1354–60.
Zidar BL, Hartsock RJ, Lee RE, et al. Pseudo-Gaucher cells in the bone marrow of a patient with Hodgkin’s disease. Am J Clin Pathol 1987;87:533–6.
Zaino EC, Rossi MB, Pham TD, et al. Gaucher’s cells in thalassemia. Blood 1971;38:457–62.
Scullin DC, Shelburne JD, Cohen HJ. Pseudo-Gaucher cells in multiple myeloma. Am J Med 1979;67:347–52.
Carrington PA, Stevens RF, Lendon M. Pseudo-Gaucher cells. J Clin Pathol 1992;45:360.
Stewart AJ, Jones RD. Pseudo-Gaucher cells in myelodysplasia. J Clin Pathol 1999;52:917–18.
