Crystal-storing histiocytosis due to massive accumulation of Charcot-Leyden crystals: A unique association producing colonic polyposis in a 78-year-old woman with eosinophilic colitis

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 481-485

  Lewis, Jason T ^a   Candelora, Joseph N ^b   Hogan, Reed B ^c   Briggs, Frank R ^b   Abraham, Susan C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b St Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcot Leyden crystals; Colon; Crystal storing histiocytosis; Eosinophilic colitis; Eosinophils

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON MUCOSA; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EOSINOPHILIC COLITIS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; TISSUE SECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CELL INCLUSION; COLITIS; COLON; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEGRANULATION; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; GASTROINTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; MACROPHAGE; PATHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; CELL DEGRANULATION; COLITIS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; INTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34247632734     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213420.46127.9c     Document Type: Article

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