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Histiocytosis

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
None apparent in Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, Secondary Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis and Rosai-Dorfman disease. Autosomal recessive in Primary Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.

Prenatal diagnosis
None

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Medical text written December 1997 by Dr David Webb Consultant Paediatric Haematologist/Oncologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK. Last updated September 2006 by Professor Peter Beverley, Institute for Vaccine Research, Newbury, UK.

 

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