About systemic hyperplasia of the reticuloendothelium of the blastomatous type (so-called reticuloendothelioma)

Of all the systemic hyperplasias of the reticuloendothelium, the least studied are those that are blastomatous. Almost all extremely scanty literature on this issue concerns only cases characterized by damage to one organ (for example, sarcomas or endotheliomas of the spleen or liver or individual groups of lymph glands are described. Only the case of Gödelʹya) is of greater interest in this sense because he had a systemic disease of almost all the lymph glands. But the observation of this author is not very convincing because the patient simultaneously had a stomach ulcer, and the tumor-like proliferation of the lymph glands was in places glandular and tubular.