Case Report
Year: 2020 | Month: July | Volume: 10 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 91-94
Xanthogranuloma of Abdominal Wall - A Rare Case Report
Ruchi Khadayate1, Reeta Dhar2, Siddhi Karale1
1Second year Post- Graduate student, 2 Professor,
Department of Pathology, MGM Medical College & Hospital, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai
Corresponding Author: Reeta Dhar
ABSTRACT
Xanthogranulomatous inflammation is a rare inflammatory process characterized by proliferation of histiocytes and touton giant cells. It can simulate a neoplastic process. The causative agent can be any infectious process or any causative organism, inflammatory conditions or lysosomal storage disorders like Niemann-Pick, Gaucher’s disease etc. Xanthogranulomatous inflammation comes in the category of Non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Pathologists should know the histologic features of this histiocytic disorder to categorize into and also help in patient management.
Key words: Xanthogranuloma, Abdominal wall, Non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis