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• unclassified amylopectinosis
  6 April 2011

  unclassified amylopectinosis

• Cumming syndrome
  8 March 2005

  Cumming type campomelia; cervical lymphocele with bowed long bones; campomelia, cervical lymphocele, polycystic dysplasia, short gut, polysplenia. association

• Rosai-Dorfman disease
  16 December 2003

  sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy

• Sjögren disease
  24 March 2010

  primary Sjögren’s syndrome; Goujerot-Sjögren disease; Sjögren syndrome
  Sjogren’s syndrome causes keratoconjunctivitis sicca and xerostomia. It can also cause other exocrine abnormalities such as vaginal dryness, bronchitis, and affect other organs.
  Anti-SS-A (Ro) and anti-SS-B (La) antibodies
  Anti-SS-A(Ro) antibodies are found in many autoimmune disorders, such as SLE, subacute cutaneous lupus, neonatal lupus, ANA negative lupus, Sjogren’s syndrome, primary biliary cirrhosis, chronic active (...)

• adult diffuse nesidioblastosis
  16 May 2008

  Persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (PHH) in adults that is not caused by an insulinoma is a rare and not well-characterized disease that has been named nesidioblastosis.
  Diffuse nesidioblastosis in adult patients with PHH resembles that seen in neonates suffering from PHH. The most important criterion for the diagnosis is the beta-cell hypertrophy.
  As approximately 4% of adult patients with PHH are affected by diffuse nesidioblastosis, this disease is not as rare as it has been (...)

• infantile myofibromatosis
  9 February 2006

  Definition: Infantile myofibromatosisis is defined by the presence of multiple infantile myofibromas. Infantile myofibromatosis is a term coined by Chung and Enzinger.
  It exclusively affects infants and young children, with 60% of cases noted at birth or shortly thereafter and more than 80% occurring before the age of 2 years.
  Infantile myofibromatosis is one of the most commonly occurring tumors of the neonatal period, presenting in both solitary and multicentric forms.
  Most solitary (...)

• autism
  1 October 2003

  Definition: Autism is a neurodevelopmental syndrome defined by deficits in social reciprocity and communication and by unusual repetitive behaviors. Although there is an underlying genetic predisposition, the etiology of autism is currently unknown. A recent increase in prevalence suggests that genetically determined vulnerability to environmental exposure might contribute to the causation of autism.
  Autism is a common and genetically heterogeneous disorder, with an estimated heritability (...)

• rheumatoid arthritis
  6 October 2003

  rheumatoid polyarthritis

• Behcet disease
  31 October 2005

  Behcet syndrome

• sarcoidosis
  22 September 2003

  Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology, associated with an accumulation of CD4+ T cells and a TH1 immune response. WP
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  hepatic sarcoidosis https://twitter.com/Hopkins_GI_Path/status/675402892036173826
  cutaneous sarcoidosis https://twitter.com/RyanHickMD/status/731249607909351424
  Sarcoidosis: all types of giant cells and endogenous inclusions occur, none are specific https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/879435684540538884
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  Sarcoidosis in (...)

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