RT Book, Section
A1 Lichtman, Marshall A.
A1 Kaushansky, Kenneth
A1 Prchal, Josef T.
A1 Levi, Marcel M.
A1 Burns, Linda J.
A1 Armitage, James O.
SR Print(0)
ID 1133363575
T1 Classification and Clinical Manifestations of Monocytes and Macrophages
T2 Williams Manual of Hematology, 9e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259642470
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1133363575
RD 2024/04/25
AB Classification  is  difficult  because  few  diseases  result  solely  in  disturbance  of  monocytes.Presence  of  monocytosis,  monocytopenia,  or  histiocytosis  may  be  an  important  diagnostic  feature  and  may  contribute  to  functional  abnormalities.The  terms  “macrophage”  and  “histiocyte”  are  synonymous.—  Macrophage  is  the  correct  designation  when  discussing  tissue  disorders  of  the  mononuclear  phagocyte  system.—  The  latter  system  is  the  sum  of  the  marrow,  blood  and  tissue  pool  of  monocytes  and  macrophages.  (The  term  reticuloendothelial  for  this  system  is  obsolete.)—  For  historical  reasons,  macrophage  disorders  are  referred  to  by  pathologists  as  a  histiocytic  disorder  or  a  histiocytosis  (eg,  Langerhans  cell  histiocytosis).