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Name the four diseases that comprise Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Letterer-Siwe Disease (0-2y/o)

Hand-Schuller-Christian Disease (2-6y/o); Triad (DI, bone lesions, exophthalmos)

Eosinophilic Granuloma (7-12y/o); bone lesions primarily

Congenital Self-Healing Reticulohistiocytosis (aka
Hashimoto-Pritzker disease) (congenital); self-healing, mainly skin involvment
What is another name for Congenital Self-Healing Reticulohistiocytosis?
Hashimoto-Pritzker Disease (may present as blueberry muffin baby)
Name some LCH cell stains
S100+
CD1a+
CD207-Langerin+
alpha-D-mannosidase+
CD45+
CD101+
HLA-DR+
What endocrine disorder is assoc with LCH?
Diabetes Insipidus
What bone abnormality is seen in LCH?
Osteolytic bone lesions are common
What are the three 'histiocytes' of cutaneous importance?
1. Langerhans cell
2. mononuclear cell/macrophages
3. dermal dendrocytes
What is the triad of Hand-Schuller-Christian disease?
Diabetes insipidus
Bone lesions
Exophthalmos
Patients with LCH have increased risk of what malignancy?
Solid Tumors and Leukemia (ALL or Acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia)
What conditions have comma-shaped bodies and worm-like particles?
LCH, juvenile xanthogranuloma, generalized eruptive histiocytoma, and Rosai-Dorfman disease
Histiocytosis with intracytoplasmic worm-like bodies is aka?
Benign Cephalic Histiocytosis
Name the Dz:
Infants < 1 y/o
Red to brown macules and papules on face and neck
Self-limiting dz
worm-like bodies
Benign Cephalic Histiocytosis
This dz:
affects adults more than children
recurrent crops of red to brown papules
widespread axial distribution
self-limited
Generalized eruptive histiocytoma
Immunophenotype for Indeterminante Cell Histiocytosis?
S100 and CD1a (like in LCH) as well as non-LCH (CD68+)
Juvenile Xanthogranuloma (MC histiocytosis) -- can be assoc with what dz?
rare assoc with:
NF type 1 (JXG assoc with CALM)
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
(ocular lesions can cause blindness)
What is the most common histiocytosis?
Juvenile Xanthogranuloma
What immunohistochemical stains are seen in JXG?
Positive HAM56, CD68, factor XIIIa
Sometimes S100+
CD1a usually negative
What is the most common extracutaneous invovlvement in JXG?
#1. Eyes - can cause Hyphema & Glaucoma, blindness
#2. Lung
What are the key clinical features and findings in Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma?
1. Avg Age of onset = 6th decade
2. Strong assoc with with Paraproteinemia (IgG monoclonal gammopathy in 80%of pts)
3. Increased risk of plasma cell dyscrasias and lymphoproliferative disorders
What are the key features in Reticulohistiocytosis?
1. single to multicentric
2. primarily seen in adults (caucasian)
3. 50% develop mucous membrane lesions (oral and nasopharyngeal -- can cause leonine faces)
4. Assoc with destructive arthritis and solid-organ malignancies (bronchial, breast, stomach and cervical carcinomas are most common)
5. Periungual lesions can have "ground glass" appearance
Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy Aka?
Rosai-Dorfman Disease
what are key clinical findings in Rosai-Dorman dz?
UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY, ?assoc with HHV 6
Children and young adults

1. massive, but painless bilateral cervical LAD
2. fever/anemia/elevated ESR
3. neutrophilia and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia
Most common extranodal involvement in Rosai-Dorfman?
After Lymph nodes...
skin and soft tissue, the eyelid and orbit, the upper respiratory tract, major salivary glands, CNS and bone
What is emperipolesis?
taking up of intact lymphocytes and plasma cells by histiocytes -- see in rosai-dorfman
Immunohistochemical stains in Rosai-Dorfman?
S100+
CD11c+, CD14+, CD68+
Factor XIIIa+
CD1a negative
Disseminated Xanthosiderohistiocytosis aka?
Xanthoma Disseminatum
Key features of Xanthoma Disseminatum
1. Classic Triad: Cutaneous xanthomas, mucous membrane xanthomas, and diabetes insipidus
2. symmetric distribution
3. flexural and intertriginous involvement
4. upper airway lesions
What % of patients have mucous memb involvement in Xanthoma Disseminatum? CNS?
40-60% have MM
40% have CNS involvement (hypothalamus and pituitary gland)
What three clinical outcomes are seen in Xanthoma Disseminatum?
1. rare self-healing form
2. common persistent form
3. rare progressive form
What is Langerin?
CD207
Transmembrane cell surface receptor
What two diseases has JXG been associated with?
NF1 and Juvenile CML
Most common site for Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma
Periorbital region -- Ophthalmic manifestations common
What gammopathy is associated with NXG?
Associated IgG monoclonal gammopathy (one case of IgA); 40% with cryoglobulinemia
What virus is found in many Rosai Dorfman cases (in the LNs)?
HHV6
Most common association/involvement in Rosai Dorfman (besides LN)?
Uveal involvement
Eruptive Xanthomas can be seen in which hyperlipidemias?
Seen in hypertriglyceridemia:
Type I, Type IV, V
What are the skin findings in:
Type I Hyperlipoproteinemias?
Lab findings?
Eruptive Xanthoma

slow chylomicron clearance, reduced LDL and HDL
elevated TGs
What are the skin findings in:
Type II Hyperlipoproteinemias?
Lab findings?
Tendinous, tuberoeruptive, tuberous, plane (xanthelasma, intertriginous areas, interdigital web spaces)

Reduced LDL Clearance
Hypercholesterolemia
What are the skin findings in:
Type III Hyperlipoproteinemias?
Lab findings?
Tuberoeruptive, tuberous, plane (palmar creases), tendinous

Elevated levels of chylomicron remnants and IDLs
Hypercholesterolemia
HyperTGs
What are the skin findings in:
Type IV Hyperlipoproteinemias?
Lab findings?
Eruptive Xanthoma

Increased VLDLs
HyperTGs
What are the skin findings in:
Type V Hyperlipoproteinemias?
Lab findings?
Eruptive Xanthoma

Decreased LDLs and HDLs
HyperTGs
What is the role of Apolipoprotein C-II?
Activates lipoprotein lipase
What is the role of Apolipoprotein E/B-100?
Binds LDL receptor allowing uptake in the liver
What is the role of Apolipoprotein A-I?
Required for activation of Lecithin: Cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT)
What is the role of Apolipoprotein B-48?
Exclusively found in chylomicrons
Lofgren's syndrome
Erythema Nodosum
Hilar Adenopathy
Fever
Arthritis
Heerfordt's syndrome
Parotid gland enlargement, uveitis, fever, cranial nerve palsy
Mikulicz Disease
parotitis, salivary/lacrimal gland enlargement, xerostomia, decreased lacrimation
Darier-Roussy disease
subcutaneous sarcoidosis
What HLAs are assoc with Sarcoid?
Genetic susceptibility associated with HLA-1, HLA B-8, and HLA-DR3 alleles
Is CD4 or CD8 predominant in Sarcoid granulomas?
Cutaneous granulomas with a predominance of CD4+ helper T cells and a paucity of CD8+ suppressor T cells, B cells, and immunoglobulin
What is Kveim-Siltzbach antigen?
Suspension of sarcoidal spleen injected in the skin leads to formation of typical granuloma in sarcoidosis patients
Lupus pernio?
Assoc with what complications of sarcoid?
papulonodules and plaques of the nose, ears and cheeks
important to recognize this finding is associated with chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis (75%) and upper airway sarcoidosis (50%)
Childhood sarcoid has what triad?
Arthritis, uveitis, and cutaneous lesions
What % of pts have elevated ESR in Sarcoid?
40%
What % of sarcoid pts have hilar and/or paratracheal LAD?
90%
What are Asteroid bodies?
engulfed collagen = eosinophilic stellate inclusions
What are Schaumann bodies?
rounded basophilic inclusions = degenerating lysosomes
What are some common lab findings in sarcoid patients?
elevated ANA in 30%; elevated serum ACE in 60%; also check for elevated ESR, anemia, eosinophilia, lymphopenia, and hypercalcemia
Demographic for Granuloma Annulare?
kids & young adults (2/3s under age 30) and more common in females (2:1)
What diseases are associated with GA (only rarely though!)
DM & Lymphoma
HLA Associated with generalized GA?
HLA-Bw35
Annular Elastolytic Giant Cell Granuloma is aka?
Actinic granuloma (of O’Brein)

Giant cell elastophagocytosis

Miescher’s granuloma of the face

Atypical (annular) necrobiosis lipoidica of the face and scalp
Name the condition:
Asymptomatic annular plaques on the head, neck, and other sun exposed areas
Borders are elevated and erythematous with slightly atrophic and hypopigmented center
Non-palisading granulomas with FBT giant cells, histiocytes, and lymphocytes
Elastic fibers are absent in the center of lesions, and some elastic fibers are found within giant cells
No collagen alteration, mucin, or lipid deposition; no vascular changes
Annular Elastolytic Giant Cell Granuloma
What % of Crohn's patients will present with skin findings?
20%
No correlation with skin findings and intestinal activity
% with genital or extra genital crohns?
2/3 of kids have genital findings
1/2 of adults have genital findings
What % have pt's have continguous crohn's (connecting to intestinal crohns)?
1/3 of pts have Contiguous Crohns
What % of pt's have oral dz in crohns?
5-20% (90% granulomatous oral findings)
Other Cutaneous Manifestations of Crohns?
PAN
EN
EM
LCCV
EBA
Pathergy
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Zinc deficiency - acrodermatitis enteropathica-like syndrome
What can cause introduction of the following FBs into the body for:
Silica
Talc
Zirconium
Berylium
Aluminum
Zinc
Silica - blast injuries
Talc - surgical procedures
Zirconium - deodorants
Berylium - Inhalation
Aluminum - Vaccines
Zinc - Insulin-zinc preparations
Name the Tatoo color:
Cinnabar and mercury
Red
Name the Tatoo color: Cobalt
Blue
Name the Tatoo color: Chromium
Green
Name the Tatoo color: Cadmium
Yellow
Name the Tatoo color: Manganese
Purple
Name the Tatoo color: Ferric Hydrate
Ochre (can be a purple ochre or red ochre)
Name the Laser for: Blue/Black
Q-switched ruby (694 nm), Q-switched alexandrite (755 nm), Q-switched Nd:YAG (1064 nm)
Name the Laser for: Green
Q-switched alexandrite (755 nm), QS-ruby (694 nm)
Name the Laser for: Red/Orange/Purple
Q-switched, frequency-doubled Nd:YAG (532 nm); pigmented pulsed dye (510 nm)
Name the Laser for: Yellow
Pigmented pulsed dye (510 nm)
How can you distinguish silicone from paraffin on histology?
Silicone will not stain with lipid stains
If you see someone with granulomas around the umbilical stump, intertriginous areas and IV drug sites -- what might you think about?
Talc (magnesium silicate)
What can you use to detect zirconium particles?
Energy-dispersive X-Ray analysis
What is paler staining, less fibrillar, and is not birefrignent under polarized light?
implanted bovine collagen
What is Sabra dermatitis?
skin colored papules with black dot resulting from cactus spine exposure