Rosai-Dorfman Disease of Rare Isolated Spinal Involvement: Report of 4 Cases and Literature Review.

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Rosai-Dorfman Disease of Rare Isolated Spinal Involvement: Report of 4 Cases and Literature Review.

World Neurosurg. 2016 Jan;85:367.e11-6

Authors: Huang BY, Zhang H, Zong WJ, Sun YH

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is a rare histioproliferative disorder that only occasionally involves the central nervous system (CNS).
CASE DESCRIPTION: The diagnosis and treatment of 4 patients with isolated spinal RDD are discussed. All 4 patients were treated by total or subtotal surgical resection and none of them experienced recurrence. Histopathologic examination showed a characteristic emperipolesis, and the lymphocytes were engulfed in the S-100-protein-positive histiocytes with no expression of CD1a.
CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative diagnosis of spinal RDD is still challenging because the lesion is usually a dura-based lesion that mimics a meningioma. Surgical resection is an effective treatment, and radiotherapy, steroid therapy, and chemotherapy have not shown reliable therapeutic efficiency.

PMID: 26459700 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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