Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disorder with numerous clinicopathological variants with differing clinical courses, treatment methods, and prognoses. We report one patient with atypical LCH of the bilateral lower eyelids and subsequent successful treatment with local radiation therapy...

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Autores principales: Leveson, James, Bourque, Jean-Marc, Lukovic, Jelena, Dar, A. Rashid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27004151
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.474
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spelling pubmed-47790812016-03-21 Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids Leveson, James Bourque, Jean-Marc Lukovic, Jelena Dar, A. Rashid Cureus Radiation Oncology Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disorder with numerous clinicopathological variants with differing clinical courses, treatment methods, and prognoses. We report one patient with atypical LCH of the bilateral lower eyelids and subsequent successful treatment with local radiation therapy. Cureus 2016-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4779081/ /pubmed/27004151 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.474 Text en Copyright © 2016, Leveson et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Radiation Oncology
Leveson, James
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Lukovic, Jelena
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Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids
title Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids
title_full Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids
title_fullStr Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids
title_full_unstemmed Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids
title_short Radiotherapy for Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Bilateral Eyelids
title_sort radiotherapy for langerhans cell histiocytosis of bilateral eyelids
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27004151
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.474
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