Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis: A Rare Disorder With a Rare Presentation

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disorder most commonly seen in Caucasians of Northern European decent, male, children. The most common presentation is osteolytic bone lesions. A 44-year-old native American presents with diffuse erythematous, scaling lesions. The patient also had prurit...

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Autores principales: Byragani, Divya, Baradhi, Krishna, Schendrick, Igor, Koya, Supriya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147428
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon880w
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author Byragani, Divya
Baradhi, Krishna
Schendrick, Igor
Koya, Supriya
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description Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disorder most commonly seen in Caucasians of Northern European decent, male, children. The most common presentation is osteolytic bone lesions. A 44-year-old native American presents with diffuse erythematous, scaling lesions. The patient also had pruritus and lymphadenopathy. These lesions were positive for S-100 and CD1a. The patient was started on chemotherapy which improved her symptoms immensely. This was a rare disease with a rare presentation.
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spelling pubmed-56497232017-11-16 Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis: A Rare Disorder With a Rare Presentation Byragani, Divya Baradhi, Krishna Schendrick, Igor Koya, Supriya World J Oncol Case Report Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disorder most commonly seen in Caucasians of Northern European decent, male, children. The most common presentation is osteolytic bone lesions. A 44-year-old native American presents with diffuse erythematous, scaling lesions. The patient also had pruritus and lymphadenopathy. These lesions were positive for S-100 and CD1a. The patient was started on chemotherapy which improved her symptoms immensely. This was a rare disease with a rare presentation. Elmer Press 2015-04 2015-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5649723/ /pubmed/29147428 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon880w Text en Copyright 2015, Byragani et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis: A Rare Disorder With a Rare Presentation
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title_fullStr Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis: A Rare Disorder With a Rare Presentation
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title_short Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis: A Rare Disorder With a Rare Presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147428
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon880w
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