Sentences with word «histiocytes»

In the spleen, tumor cells grew in the red pulp, forming packed nodular groups of histiocytes.

This disease occurs when abnormal immune cells known as histiocytes grow and divide nonstop, often killing healthy cells nearby.

«All we knew for a long time was that special immune cells called histiocytes were found in the tissue of patients who were sick,» says Melissa Hines, MD, of St. Jude Critical Care.

It is a non-cancerous increase in number of mixed reactive cells, mostly histiocytes but also may include white blood cells (neutrophils) and lymphocytes.

Histiocytic ulcerative colitis is a rare disease in which ulcers line the colon and cause inflammation with periodic acid - Schiff (PAS) positive histiocytes.

Dogs may also have decreased numbers of white blood cells, increases in liver enzymes and an increased number of histiocytes in the blood and bone marrow.

Histiocytomas are benign tumors caused by an overgrowth of histiocytes (immune cells).

This may be because the histiocytes have migrated and proliferated there or because there is a reaction to secondary infection.

The histiocyte group of cells are part of the body's immune surveillance system.

Histiocytes are white blood cells that have left the blood and dwell in body tissue (macrophages derived from monocytes and dendritic cells).

It is a cancer of histiocytes, cells responsible for immune functions, which are present in the lymph nodes and in numerous organs, including the spleen, liver and lungs.

Histiocytomas are caused by an overgrowth of histiocytes (immune cells).

While some believe that these tumors are a soft tissue sarcoma, others have categorized malignant histiocytosis as a type of histiocytic sarcoma, which may be influenced by an abnormally large amount of histiocytes, a type of white blood cells that are integral to immune system functions.

Most organs also contain muscle tissue and special cells (histiocytes or macrophages) whose function is to clear debris.

Fibrous histiocytoma is a subtype of these cancers, possibly originating from a primitive cell, which can develop into either fibrous tissue or histiocytes.

Fibrohistiocytic nodules are proliferations of lymphoid tissue (white pulp), fibrous cells and histiocytes.

Histiocytic sarcoma is an aggressive cancer of histiocytes, which are an immune system type cell.