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[Gastric interdigitating reticulum cell sarcoma: unusual presentation of a histiocytic tumor]
Olivier Saint-Marc1, Alessandro Pozzo, Carole Cohen
1Service de Chirurgie Digestive et Endocrinienne, Centre Hospitalier Régional, Orléans, France. olivier.saint-marc@chr-orleans.fr
Gastroenterologie Clinique Et Biologique
|July 18, 2002
Abstract:
Histiocytic sarcoma, proliferation arising from immunoregulatory effector system cells, is a very rare and recently recognized tumor. Diagnosis is based on immunohistochemical and molecular genetic study, which allows to distinguish histiocytic sarcoma from lymphocytic proliferation, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. We report the case of a gastric interdigitating reticulum cell sarcoma, treated by resection and chemotherapy. We review here clinical, histological, immunohistochemical and genotypic features of histiocytic tumors of the digestive tract.