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Malignant neoplasms composed of MACROPHAGES or DENDRITIC CELLS. Most histiocytic sarcomas present as localized tumor masses without a leukemic phase. Though the biological behavior of these neoplasms resemble lymphomas, their cell lineage is histiocytic not lymphoid.
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- True Histiocytic Lymphoma
- True Malignant Histiocytosis
- Histiocytic Lymphoma, True
- Histiocytic Lymphomas, True
- Histiocytic Sarcomas
- Histiocytoses, True Malignant
- Histiocytosis, True Malignant
- Lymphoma, True Histiocytic
- Lymphomas, True Histiocytic
- Malignant Histiocytoses, True
- Malignant Histiocytosis, True
- Sarcoma, Histiocytic
- Sarcomas, Histiocytic
- True Histiocytic Lymphomas
- True Malignant Histiocytoses
- Histiocytosis, Malignant
- Malignant Histiocytosis
- Histiocytoses, Malignant
- Malignant Histiocytoses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2008
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Histiocytic Sarcoma. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054747. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054747
- Histiocytic Sarcoma. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histiocytic_sarcoma
- Histiocytic Sarcoma. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5773034