Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis: Elective Excision of Symptomatic Hand Nodules With 1-Year Follow-Up. 2020

Matthew Mead, and Travis Baes, and George Dass
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint, MI. Electronic address: matthew.mead@mclaren.org.

Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis is a rare non-Langerhans cell histiocytic rheumatologic disorder characterized by multiple skin lesions, painful hand nodules, and destructive polyarthritis that results in arthritis mutilans in 20% to 30% of patients. In the current literature, there have been approximately 300 cases reported and the pathogenesis remains unclear. Currently, there is no diagnostic serologic test and no consensus on management. In this case report, we present a patient with multicentric reticulohistiocytosis who was treated with selective excision of 3 painful nodules on the hand. The patient was seen 1 year after surgery. One of the nodules reoccurred whereas the other 2 remained quiescent. This procedure has the potential to produce considerable pain relief and improve quality of life in a disease process for which optimal medical regimen remains to be determined.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011788 Quality of Life A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease. HRQOL,Health-Related Quality Of Life,Life Quality,Health Related Quality Of Life
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001168 Arthritis Acute or chronic inflammation of JOINTS. Oligoarthritis,Polyarthritis,Arthritides,Oligoarthritides,Polyarthritides
D012871 Skin Diseases Diseases involving the DERMIS or EPIDERMIS. Dermatoses,Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Disorders,Dermatosis,Skin Disease
D015616 Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell Group of disorders which feature accumulations of active HISTIOCYTES and LYMPHOCYTES, but where the histiocytes are not LANGERHANS CELLS. The group includes HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; SINUS HISTIOCYTOSIS; xanthogranuloma; reticulohistiocytoma; JUVENILE XANTHOGRANULOMA; xanthoma disseminatum; as well as the lipid storage diseases (SEA-BLUE HISTIOCYTE SYNDROME; and NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES). Reticulohistiocytoma,Xanthoma Disseminatum,Disseminatum, Xanthoma,Histiocytosis, Non Langerhans Cell,Non-Langerhans-Cell Histiocytosis,Reticulohistiocytomas

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