Histiocytic sarcoma; case report of a rare disease in a kidney transplant recipient

• Main Authors: Pedro Ventura Aguiar (Author), Carla Dias (Author), Pedro Azevedo (Author), Hugo Neves Silva (Author), Manuela Almeida (Author), Sofia Pedroso (Author), La Salete Martins (Author), Leonídio Dias (Author), Anabela Rodrigues (Author), Ramón Viscaíño (Author), António Cabrita (Author), António Castro Henriques (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Society of Diabetic Nephropathy Prevention, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Histiocytic sarcoma (HS) is a rare hematologic neoplasm with a few hundred cases having been described to date. Case Presentation: We report the case of a 56-year-old woman with a history of hepatitis C infection and chronic kidney disease (CKD), submitted to a kidney transplant in 1984,...