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ORPHA:86896

Histiocytic sarcoma

low confidenceDisorder

Publications

3,084

Trials

6

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,221

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare histiocytic tumor characterized by a malignant proliferation of cells showing morphological and immunophenotypic features of mature tissue histiocytes. Most cases occur in extranodal sites, most commonly the intestinal tract, skin, and soft tissue. Patients may present with a solitary mass, lymphadenopathy, a skin rash or numerous tumors on the trunk and extremities, lytic bone lesions, with pancytopenia, intestinal obstruction, and/or systemic symptoms. The neoplasm is aggressive with typically poor therapy response.

How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (2)

histiocytic sarcoma · sarcoma, histiocytic, malignant

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    3,084 matched papers (1,589 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    6 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (2 recruiting in sample)

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

3,084

3,084 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

3,084 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

1,589 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 3,084 · MeSH hits: 57

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,221

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Baumgärtner W4 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30559 Hannover, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Goto-Koshino Y4 papers · 2026

    Veterinary Medical Center, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Sakuma H4 papers · 2026

    Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Tomiyasu H4 papers · 2026

    Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Zhang L4 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Armando F3 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30559 Hannover, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Bonkobara M3 papers · 2026

    Department of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Emile JF3 papers · 2026

    Paris-Saclay University, Versailles SQY University, EA4340-BECCOH, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Ambroise-Paré Hospital, Smart Imaging, Service de Pathologie, Boulogne, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Go RS3 papers · 2026

    Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Goyal G3 papers · 2026

    Division of Hematology-Medical Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

6

interventional trials for this specific condition

6 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 2 currently recruiting in our sample.

Data as of 27 July 2026

6 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 89th percentile).

low confidence · 89th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

6 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Histiocytic sarcoma" OR "sarcoma, histiocytic, malignant"

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MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Histiocytic Sarcoma

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Histiocytic sarcoma" OR "sarcoma, histiocytic, malignant"

Interventional trials matched via: both (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 6 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh; with hits: phrase, mesh

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Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (3084) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T03:17:38.779Z