Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Langerhans' cell histiocytosis is a proliferative histiocytic disorder of unknown cause originating from dendritic cells. CASE PRESENTATION: The authors report a case of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis in a 48-year-old man with multisystemic disease presentation, including liv...

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Autores principales: Savva-Bordalo, Joana, Freitas-Silva, Margarida
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19063726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-376
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author Savva-Bordalo, Joana
Freitas-Silva, Margarida
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description INTRODUCTION: Langerhans' cell histiocytosis is a proliferative histiocytic disorder of unknown cause originating from dendritic cells. CASE PRESENTATION: The authors report a case of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis in a 48-year-old man with multisystemic disease presentation, including liver involvement. CONCLUSION: Hepatic involvement is an uncommon feature in this rare disease and there is no consensus on the most effective therapeutic approach.
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spelling pubmed-26150322009-01-08 Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report Savva-Bordalo, Joana Freitas-Silva, Margarida J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Langerhans' cell histiocytosis is a proliferative histiocytic disorder of unknown cause originating from dendritic cells. CASE PRESENTATION: The authors report a case of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis in a 48-year-old man with multisystemic disease presentation, including liver involvement. CONCLUSION: Hepatic involvement is an uncommon feature in this rare disease and there is no consensus on the most effective therapeutic approach. BioMed Central 2008-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2615032/ /pubmed/19063726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-376 Text en Copyright © 2008 Savva-Bordalo and Freitas-Silva; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report
title Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report
title_full Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report
title_fullStr Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report
title_short Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report
title_sort langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the liver of a male smoker: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19063726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-376
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