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Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) can affect children and adults with a wide variety of clinical manifestations, including unifocal, single-system multifocal, single-system pulmonary (smoking-associated), or multisystem disease.
G. Goyal +17 more
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Dabrafenib and trametinib in Langerhans cell histiocytosis and other histiocytic disorders
The standard treatment for Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is chemotherapy, although the failure rates are high. Since MAP-kinase activating mutations are found in most cases, BRAF- and MEK-inhibitors have been used successfully to treat patients ...
E. Cournoyer +13 more
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ALK-related histiocytosis (formerly ALK-positive histiocytosis) is a rare subtype of histiocytic neoplasm first described in 2008 in three infants with multisystemic disease involving the liver and hematopoietic system.
P. Kemps +80 more
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Histiocytosis and the nervous system: from diagnosis to targeted therapies
Histiocytoses are heterogeneous hematopoietic diseases characterized by the accumulation of CD68(+) cells with various admixed inflammatory infiltrates.
F. Cohen Aubart +7 more
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Langerhans cell histiocytosis: Version 2021
Children with Langerhnans cell histiocytosis (LCH) develop granulomatous lesions with characteristic clonal CD207+ dendritic cells that can arise as single lesions or life‐threatening disseminated disease. Despite the wide range of clinical presentations,
N. Gulati, C. Allen
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Langerhans Cell histiocytosis.
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) is caused by clonal expansion of myeloid precursors that differentiate into CD1a+/CD207+ cells in lesions that leads to a spectrum of organ involvement and dysfunction.
C. Rodríguez-Galindo, C. Allen
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Clinical periodontal diagnosis
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi +5 more
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Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH) is a diffuse cystic lung disease that is strongly associated with exposure to cigarette smoke. Recently, activating pathogenic mutations in the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway have been described in
B. Shaw +3 more
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Primary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of the Extrahepatic Bile Duct Occurring in an Adult Patient
Background: Langerhans cell histiocytosis is characterized by an abnormal proliferation of neoplastic Langerhans cells. Langerhans cell histiocytosis commonly affects the pediatric population, whereas presentation in adults remains a rare event.
Ifeyinwa E. Obiorah +3 more
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Langerhans cell histiocytosis on the penis: a case report
Background Langerhans cell histiocytosis affects mainly young children and features an accumulation of CD1a+ dendritic Langerhans cells in the bone, skin, and other organs.
Kuroda Isao +5 more
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