RT Book, Section
A1 Lichtman, Marshall A.
A1 Kaushansky, Kenneth
A1 Kipps, Thomas J.
A1 Prchal, Josef T.
A1 Levi, Marcel M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126652309
T1 Inflammatory and Malignant Histiocytosis
T2 Williams Manual of Hematology, 8e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071622424
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126652309
RD 2024/04/20
AB The  terms  histiocyte  and  macrophage  are  synonyms  for  the  mature  cell  of  the  monocyte-macrophage  system.  The  latter  is  the  preferred  term  in  discussions  of  cell  biology  and  immunology,  but  the  former  term  continues  to  be  used  by  pathologists  and  in  textbooks  for  diseases  of  macrophages  because  of  its  entrenchment  in  the  medical  literature.A  classification  of  the  histiocytoses  most  relevant  to  hematologists  is  shown  in  Table  37–1.  They  have  been  classified  based  on  whether  they  are  monocyte-derived  dendritic-cell-related,  monocytes-macrophage-related,  or  neoplastic  transformations  of  dendritic-cells  or  macrophages.Distinctions  among  the  diseases  of  macrophages  are  made  based  on  clinical  findings,  histopathology,  immunophenotyping  of  surface  antigen,  cytochemistry,  and  cytogenetic  or  genetic  features  (Table  37–2).