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"Histiocytosis X" – A Rare Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Histiocytosis X is an idiopathic disease, characterized by a disorder of the reticulo-endothelial system in the human body. Histopathological studies carried out right from the 1800s have seen a significant similarity in the pathologic process of ...
Emmanuel Dhiravia Sargunam Azariah +4 more
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Histiocytosis x: Recurrent isolated mandibular lesion (case report) [PDF]
Stomatološki glasnik Srbije, 2003 Histiocytosis X usually affects children and adolescents. In our case, a 54-year-old woman was admitted to hospital for evaluating and treatment of an isolated, painless swelling of the left side of the mandible.
Basta-Jovanović Gordana M. +3 more
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Unusual presentation of histiocytosis X in the cranial vault: A rare case report [PDF]
Radiology Case ReportsLangerhans histiocytosis or histiocytosis X is an oligo-clonal proliferation of Langerhans cells. We report the case of an 11-month-old infant who had presented with a parieto-occipital swelling since birth, which progressively increased in volume ...
Dahmane El Hairech, MD, PhDs +1 more
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Progress in understanding the pathogenesis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis: back to Histiocytosis X? [PDF]
Br J Haematol, 2015 Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), the most common histiocytic disorder, is characterized by the accumulation of CD1A+/CD207+ mononuclear phagocytes within granulomatous lesions that can affect nearly all organ systems.
Berres ML, Merad M, Allen CE.
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Histiocytosis X--current controversies. [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1985 Circulating monocytes, cutaneous Langerhans cells, Kupffer cells, bone osteoclasts, microglial cells, and alveolar macrophages are all histiocytes and are derived from a bone marrow stem cell.1 Histiocytes are also found in the lymph nodes, spleen ...
Valerie Broadbent, Jon Pritchard
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Severe pulmonary hypertension in histiocytosis X: long-term improvement with bosentan [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2010 To the Editors: Pulmonary Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis (LCH)/histiocytosis X is a rare smoking-related interstitial lung disease that predominantly affects adults aged 20–40 yrs.
L. Kiakouama +5 more
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1962 J S Pegum, Patricia Wallis
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Histiocytosis X of the Hypothalamus
Neurosurgery, 1989 Abstract An 18-year-old woman presented with visual disturbance and endocrine dysfunction (diabetes insipidus, delayed puberty, hypothyroidism, hypoadrenalism, and hyperprolactinemia). Computed tomography and enhanced cisternography showed a single hypothalamic mass, which proved at biopsy to be histiocytosis X.
K. Patrick Ober +4 more
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Commentary: "Histiocytosis X" [PDF]
Thorax, 1998 Pulmonary Langerhans’ cell granulomatosis (LCG) is a diffuse, smoking-related lung disease characterised pathologically by bronchiolocentric inflammation, cyst formation, and widespread vascular abnormalities, and physiologically by exercise limitation. Pulmonary fibrosis is a long term sequel.
Dinah V. Parums
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