[Histiocytic medullary reticulosis and herpetic necrotizing inclusion hepatitis].

A male aged 47 suffered from the syndrome of histiocytic medullary reticulosis terminating lethally within one year. Because of the finding of a necrotizing inclusion hepatitis of the herpetic type at autopsy, intranuclear inclusions were retrospectively searched for in the tumour tissue. Inclusions were found, on the one hand, in a bioptic sample obained from a lymph node at the beginning of the disease and, on the other hand, in lympatic tissue and bone marrow obtained at autopsy. The relation of histiocytic medullary reticulosis to the herpetic infection has been discussed.