Affiliations: 1 Center for Clinical Residency Program, Tottori University Hospital, Yonago Japan 2 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan 3 Department of Cardiology, San-in Rosai Hospital, Yonago, Japan 4 Kinugawa Clinic, Osaka, Japan 5 Department of Genetic Medicine and Regenerative Therapeutics, Tottori University Graduate School of Medic...

Received Jan 29, 2009; Accepted May 14, 2009 Published online in J-STAGE Jun 18, 2009 Correspondence to: Y. Suzuki, Research Center for Occupational Poisoning, Tokyo Rosai Hospital, Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization, 4–13–21 Ohmori-minami, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-0013, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]) Rapid and Effective Speciation Analysis of Arsenic Compounds in Human Urine usin...

SEIICHIRO KIMURA,1 HIROSHI MIENO,2 KENJI TAMAKI,3 MASAKI INOUE,4 AND KAZUAKI CHAYAMA5 1Saiseikai Kure Hospital, Kure City, Hiroshima 737-0821; 2Hiroshima General Hospital of the West Railroad Company, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima 732-0057; 3Chugoku Rosai Hospital, Kure City, Hiroshima 737-0193; and 4Department of Geriatric Medicine and First 5Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Health Sc...

Rosai-Dorfman Disease (RDD) or sinus histiocytosis with massive lymhadenopathy (SHML) is a rare, benign proliferative disorder of histiocytes characterized by painless bilateral cervical lymph node enlargement though extranodal disease involving skin, respiratory system, central nervous system (CNS) etc may been in > two third of cases (1-3). With lack of widespread awareness about this entity,...

The authors describe a 20-year-old man who initially developed an intradural mass in the upper cervical region and subsequently presented with nasal/paranasal sinus and posterior fossa masses, well demonstrated by CT and MR. Histopathology demonstrated dense fibrous tissue, aggregates of histiocytes with round to oval vesicular nuclei, and other features diagnostic of Rosai-Dorfman disease; a r...

BACKGROUND Rosai-Dorfman Disease is an uncommon benign systemic histio-proliferative disease. This is the first time the disease, although more common in people of African descent, is described in association with Sickle cell disease. CASE PRESENTATION A Nigerian boy born started a complex medical history with post-natal anemia of unknown origin. Subsequently he was diagnosed with Sickle Cell...

Germline mutations in the SLC29A3 gene result in a range of recessive, clinically related syndromes: H syndrome, pigmented hypertrichosis with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus syndrome, Faisalabad histiocytosis, and sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy. The main symptoms of these diseases are hyperpigmentation with hypertrichosis, sensorineural deafness, diabetes, short stature, ...