Generalized pure cutaneous Rosai-Dorfman disease: a link between inflammation and cancer not associated with mitochondrial DNA and SLC29A3 gene mutation?

Discov Med. 2013 Nov;16(89):193-200.

Abstract

Recently, we described a case of generalized pure cutaneous Rosai-Dorfman disease in a 43-year-old Asian man in JAMA. The lesions distributed on nearly all of the skin of the whole body, except for mucous sites. Molecular, immunophenotypic, and sequencing analyses seem to define it as a histiocytic-mesenchymal transition and intermediate proliferative histiocytosis not associated with mtDNA large deletion and pathogenic mutation, as well as the SLC29A3 gene mutation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • DNA, Mitochondrial / genetics*
  • Histiocytosis, Sinus / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Inflammation / genetics*
  • Mutation
  • Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Nucleoside Transport Proteins / genetics*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction

Substances

  • DNA, Mitochondrial
  • Nucleoside Transport Proteins
  • SLC29A3 protein, human