Role of the thymus in histiocytosis-X.

Hematol Oncol Clin North Am

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.

Published: March 1987

An increasing number of reports have demonstrated that patients with histiocytosis-X show significant morphologic changes in the thymus gland. The changes include severe dysplasia, dysmorphia, and severe nonspecific involution. These findings are present in all children with histiocytosis-X who die, but can be found even when the disease is limited to one bone and is not fatal.

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