Rosai and Dorfman disease with pleural involvement: case report.

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Service de Pneumologie Allergologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire La Rabta, 1006 Bab Saadoun Tunis (Tunisie).

Published: August 2008

Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (SHLM) disease is considered to be an indolent and self-limiting pathology. However, severe morbidity and mortality have been attributed to complications of SHLM. Lower respiratory tract involvement is rarely reported and is often unfavorable, and carries a particularly grave prognosis. A case of SHLM is reported, in which the patient had lower respiratory and pleural involvement.

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