Recurrent episodes of pneumonia in a toddler: Don’t forget chronic granulomatous disease

A 4-year-old boy presented with community acquired pneumonia, hepatosplenomegaly and bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. The peripheral blood film showed significant monocytosis and bone marrow examination revealed multiple histiocytic granulomas. Presence of CD 68 positive granulomas supported by c...

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Autores principales: Khurana, Alkesh Kumar, Goyal, Abhishek, Khurana, Ujjawal, Dhingra, Bhavna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041287
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_29_19
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Goyal, Abhishek
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description A 4-year-old boy presented with community acquired pneumonia, hepatosplenomegaly and bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. The peripheral blood film showed significant monocytosis and bone marrow examination revealed multiple histiocytic granulomas. Presence of CD 68 positive granulomas supported by cytological findings enabled us to make a diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease.
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spelling pubmed-64828052019-04-30 Recurrent episodes of pneumonia in a toddler: Don’t forget chronic granulomatous disease Khurana, Alkesh Kumar Goyal, Abhishek Khurana, Ujjawal Dhingra, Bhavna J Family Med Prim Care Case Report A 4-year-old boy presented with community acquired pneumonia, hepatosplenomegaly and bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. The peripheral blood film showed significant monocytosis and bone marrow examination revealed multiple histiocytic granulomas. Presence of CD 68 positive granulomas supported by cytological findings enabled us to make a diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6482805/ /pubmed/31041287 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_29_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041287
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_29_19
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