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Table 3 Revised classification system of histiocytoses and malignancies macrophage-dendritic cell lineages

From: Diagnosis difficulty of histiocytosis in the thyroid region of a child: a rare case report with literature review of differential diagnoses

Group of histiocytic disorders

Histiocytosis

1: L group

• Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH)

• Indeterminate cell histiocytosis (ICH)

• Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) (mixed LCH and ECD)

2: C group

Cutaneous LCH

▪ Xanthogranuloma (XG) family

• Juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG)

• Adult xanthogranuloma (AXG)

• Solitary reticulohistiocytoma (SHR)

• BCH

• GEH

• PNH

▪ Non-XG family

• Cutaneous Rosai-Dorfman disease

• Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma (NXG)

Cutaneous non-LCH with major systemic component

• XG family; xanthoma disseminatum (XD)

• Non-XG family multicentric reticulohistiocytosis (MRH)

3: M group

Primary MH malignant histiocytoses

Secondary malignant histiocytoses: (following or associated with another hematologic malignancy)

4: R group

• Familial Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD)

- Classical (nodal)

- Extra-nodal

- RDD with neoplasia or immune disease

- Other, non-C, non-L, non-M, non-H histiocytosis

5: H group

• Primary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH): Mendelian-inherited conditions that lead to HLH

• Secondary HLH: non-Mendelian HLH

• HLH of unknown origin