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Case Report
Two Cases of Virus Associated Hemophagocytic Syndrome
Jae Hee Han, Hyun Chul Lee, Hwang Min Kim, Jong Soo Kim, Kyung Won Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1993;36(10):1458-1465.   Published online October 15, 1993
Virus associated hemophagocytic syndrome, class II histiocytoses, characterized by high fever, severe constitutional symptoms, abnormal liver function and coagulation, peripheral blood pancytopenia and histiocytic hyperplasis with prominent hemophagocytosis in bone marrow and lymph nodes has been reported and associated with active viral infection. It is non-malignant and reversible. It must be differentiated from histiocytic medullary reticuosis because of the inappropriateness...
Original Article
A Case of Virus Associated Hemophagocytic Syndrome.
Yang Soo Kang, Ue Chong Yang, Hae Il Cheoung, Ho Jin Park, Mi Ja Shin, Je Geun Chi
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1989;32(4):567-575.   Published online April 30, 1989
Virus associated hemophagocytic syndrome is a rare hemophagocytic disorder, apparently associated with active viral infection, apparently associated with active viral infection, in which reactive histiocytes proliferate in the reticuloendothelial system, mainly bone marrow and medullary portions of lymph nodes, as a non-malignant, reversible but potentially constitutional symptoms with high fever and hepatosplenomegaly and by laboratory findings of pancytopenia, hemophagocytosis, abnormal liver function and coagulopathy. Inappropriate immunosuppressive...