Occult Mastocytosis

Delsignore JL, Dvoretsky PM, Hicks DG, O'Keefe RJ, Rosier RN.  Mastocytosis presenting as a skeletal disorder. Iowa Orthop J. 1996;16:126-134.

Horny H-P, Kaiserling E, Sillaber C, Walchshofer S, Valent P. Bone marrow mastocytosis associated with an undifferentiated extramedullary tumor of hemopoietic origin. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1997;121:423-426.

Brumsen C, Hamdy NA, Papapoulos SE. Osteoporosis and bone marrow mastocytosis: dissociation of skeletal responses and mast cell activity during long-term bisphosphonate therapy. J Bone Miner Res. 2002;17:567-569.

Bernd HW, Sotlar K, Lorenzen J, Osieka R, Fabry U, Valent P, Horny HP. Acute myeloid leukaemia with t(8;21) associated with "occult" mastocytosis. Report of an unusual case and review of the literature. J Clin Pathol. 2004;57:324-328.

Wimazal F, Schwarzmeier J, Sotlar K, Simonitsch I, Sperr WR, Fritsche-Polanz R, Födinger M, Schubert J, Horny HP, Valent P. Splenic mastocytosis: report of two cases and detection of the transforming somatic C-KIT mutation D816V. Leuk Lymphoma. 2004;45:723-729.

Florian S, Krauth MT, Simonitsch-Klupp I, Sperr WR, Fritsche-Polanz R, Sonneck K, Födinger M, Agis H, Böhm A, Wimazal F, Horny HP, Valent P. Indolent systemic mastocytosis with elevated serum tryptase, absence of skin lesions, and recurrent severe anaphylactoid episodes. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2005;136:273-280.

Bedeir A, Jukic DM, Wang L, Mullady DK, Regueiro M, Krasinskas AM.  Systemic mastocytosis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease: A case report and discussion of gastrointestinal pathology in systemic mastocytosis. Am J Surg Pathol. 2006;30:1478-1482.

Sotlar K, Saeger W, Stellmacher F, Stahmer J, Jäckle S, Valent P, Horny HP. "Occult" mastocytosis with activating c-kit point mutation evolving into systemic mastocytosis associated with plasma cell myeloma and secondary amyloidosis. J Clin Pathol. 2006;59:875-878.