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histiocytosis
(redirected from Lymphohistiocytosis)

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histiocytosis [‚his·tē·ō‚sī′tō·səs]
(medicine)
Abnormal proliferation of histiocytes, especially in hematopoietic tissues.


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We were referred to Great Ormond Street and he was diagnosed with haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, a blood disorder that cripples the immune system and affects only one in 500,000 people.
The first patient was a 4-year-old girl with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, who had 4 distinct respiratory specimens that tested positive during a 2-month period.
Her niece, 7-year-old Yelea Bueno, was diagnosed in 2002 with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, a rare and often fatal disease that strikes one in a million, usually young kids.
 
 
 
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