Author(s)

Megha Sawhney¹, Peter Levitin²

¹National Institutes of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
²Eagle Physicians & Associates, Greensboro, NC/Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Multicent ricreticulohistiocytosis (MRH) is a rare systemic disease of unclear etiology characterized by destructive, deforming arthritis, nodules in the skin, mucous membrane and internal organs and can be associated with malignancy. The tenosynovial fluid and tenosynovium histologic findings have not been reported in any case reports of MRH in the literature. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of tenosynovial fluid and tenosynovium demonstrating the classic histologic findings of histiocytes with a foamy eosinophilic cytoplasm. This case also demonstrates a non-deforming arthritis.

Tenosynovitis, Tenosynovial Fluid Analysis

Sawhney, M. and Levitin, P. (2016) Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis (MRH): First Case Report with Tenosynovial Fluid Analysis and Tenosynovial Histology Demonstrating the Classic Histologic Findings. Open Journal of Rheumatology and Autoimmune Diseases, 6, 23-25. doi: 10.4236/ojra.2016.62004.