Histiocytosis and virus: Merkel cell polyomavirus
Histiocytosis and virus: Merkel cell polyomavirus
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组织细胞增多症和病毒:默克尔细胞多瘤病毒
DOI:
10.11406/rinketsu.63.383
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发表时间:
2022
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大畑 雅典
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作者:
村上 一郎;橋田 裕美子;樋口 智紀;大畑 雅典
Histiocytosis is classified based on proliferating histiocyte-like cells. Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) has several subtypes with various outcomes, from spontaneous to fatal regression, and these subtypes had been managed as different diseases. However, these different names of disease were unified to one disease named histiocytosis X since they are pathologically identical. Presently, LCH has been used as a unified name because proliferating cells have the characteristics of Langerhans cells. Since then, clonality and BRAF mutations have been reported, and their neoplastic characteristics has become clear; however, explaining its various subtypes is difficult with only the neoplastic character. Various relationships/correlations are also known between inflammatory factors and LCH subtypes. We have pointed out that the Merkel cell polyomavirus may be involved in LCH development and LCH is a disease with both neoplastic and reactive characters, that is," a disease in which abnormal Langerhans-like cells with neoplastic character overreact to some triggers."