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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 118-121 |
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Rosai dorfman syndrome with extranodal presentation
Garimella Venkateshwara Rao, Gummadi Purnima, Gayathri Devi Bakuru, Divya Lakshminarayan, Pavani Garnpudi
Department of DVL, Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Gummadi Purnima
Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2277-8632.134862
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Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) also known as sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a rare idiopathic and non-neoplastic disorder of histiocytes, resembling the sinus histiocytes of lymph nodes. The most common presentation of RDD is painless cervical lymphadenopathy in a young patient. The typical clinical features of this disease include bilateral painless lymphadenopathy, fever, and polyclonal hyperglobulinemia. However, in about 25% of cases there is no lymph node involvement and the disease presents as a mass in skin, soft-tissue, nasal cavity, eye, bone, or in other extranodal sites (extranodal type). The condition may present with extranodal involvement in 43% of cases, and cutaneous lesions are the most common form of extranodal disease. This can pose a diagnostic challenge if RDD is not considered in differential diagnoses. Isolated extranodal RDD is relatively uncommon. We report this rare case of extranodal RDD in a 32-year-old female who presented with erythematous tender subcutaneous plaques on lower extremities with left periorbital swelling. Histopathological examination demonstrated lymphophagocytosis (emperipolesis) consistent with a diagnosis of RDD. |
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