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An asymptomatic adult woman with no significant medical or family history was found to have splenomegaly during workup for chronic, mild thrombocytopaenia. A peripheral blood smear showed isolated thrombocytopaenia and was otherwise unremarkable. A bone marrow aspirate was essentially a dry-tap with normal flow cytometry and cytogenetics. Touch preparations and histological sections of the core biopsy demonstrated abundant histiocytes (figure 1). The background trilineage haematopoiesis was otherwise unremarkable.
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Handling editor Iskander Chaudhry.
Contributors The manuscript and figures were prepared and reviewed by both listed authors with institutional approval.
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