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Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade as the Manifestation of Erdheim–Chester Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
We hereby report the case of a 77-year-old man hospitalized due to pericardial effusion and tamponade. Upon investigating potential etiologies of the pericardial effusion, we diagnosed him with non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis, also known as Erdheim ...
María Andreo Galera, Daniela D'Urso Soriano, Selene Falcón-Vega, Ana Quiles-Recuenco, Fernando Lidón Pérez, Francisco López García, Félix Gutiérrez Rodero   +6 more
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Indeterminate Cell Histiocytosis in Association with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Dermatology Research and Practice, 2010
Indeterminate cell histiocytosis (ICH) is a rare proliferative disorder, in which the predominant cells share morphologic and immunophenotypic features from both Langerhans and non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis. We describe a 62-year-old man presenting a
Filipa Ventura, Teresa Pereira, Maria da Luz Duarte, Herlander Marques, Fernando Pardal, Celeste Brito   +5 more
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Dermoscopy in the diagnosis of juvenile xanthogranuloma [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2018
: Juvenile xanthogranuloma is the most common form of non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis. It manifests clinically as a red-yellow papule, usually showing spontaneous remission. The diagnosis is based on clinical and histological findings.
Thaís Erance de Oliveira, Roberto Gomes Tarlé, Lismary Aparecida de Forville Mesquita   +2 more
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Langerhans cell histiocytosis in children: a case report and brief review of the literature

PAMJ Clinical Medicine, 2019
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), formerly known as histiocytosis X, is a non-malignant disease involving clonal proliferation of Langerhans cells. It is an orphan disease affecting mainly the child and the young adult.
Zakaria El Ouali, Nisrine Khoubila, Siham Cherkaoui, Mohamed Rachid, Mouna Lamchahab, Meryem Qachouh, Abdellah Madani, Asmaa Quessar   +7 more
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Erdheim-Chester Disease: Utility of 18F-FDG Positron Emission Tomography [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2018
Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD) is a rare non Langerhans cell histiocytosis of unknown origin with multiorgan involvement. We report a case of a man who presented to us with haematuria, asthenia, fever, nausea and malleolar oedema.
Angelina Cistaro, Maria Licari, Simone Margotti, Daniele Penna, Vincenzo Arena   +4 more
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Scabies mimicking mastocytosis in two infants

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2013
Scabies is a common parasitic human infection in infants and children. However, diagnostic pitfalls are frequent in infants, in whom the clinical presentation is usually atypical and different from that in adults.
Emine Cölgeçen-Özel, Ragıp Ertaş, Serap Utaş, Olgun Kontaş   +3 more
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Erdheim-Chester Disease Presenting with Secondary Hypertension as a Result of Bilateral, Proximal Renal Artery Stenosis: A Case Report

Case Reports in Nephrology and Dialysis, 2017
Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare, non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis presenting most commonly with bone and central nervous system symptoms, including but not limited to bone pain and diabetes insipidus.
Farid Arman, Hania Shakeri, Niloofar Nobakht, Anjay Rastogi, Mohammad Kamgar   +4 more
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The various clinical spectra of juvenile xanthogranuloma: imaging for two case reports and review of the literature

BMC Pediatrics, 2019
Background Juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) belongs to the heterogeneous group of non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis and is caused by an accumulation and proliferation of macrophages.
Michaela Höck, Bernhard Zelger, Gisela Schweigmann, Barbara Brunner, Bettina Zelger, Gabriele Kropshofer, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer   +6 more
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Erdheim-Chester Disease Associated with Marginal Zone Lymphoma and Monoclonal Proteinemia

Case Reports in Hematology, 2011
Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis. We report a fatal case of ECD with extensive cardiac involvement associated with a marginal zone lymphoma and monoclonal proteinemia in a young man.
Peter G. Pavlidakey, Alok Mohanty, Lisa J. Kohler, Howard J. Meyerson   +3 more
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Flat Topped Brown Papules on a Four-Year-Old Male

Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Dermatologia e Venereologia, 2020
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Francisca Alves, Maria Relvas, José Cardoso, Leonor Ramos   +3 more
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