Multifocal Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the pediatric spine: A case report and literature review

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-131

  Vadivelu, S ^a   Mangano, F T ^a   Miller, C R ^a   Leonard, J R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Histiocytosis X; Langerhans cell histiocytosis; Multifocal spinal disease; Myelopathy; Spinal tumor; Vertebra plana

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; PROTEIN S 100; T6 ANTIGEN; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; LANGERHANS CELL; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33846411010     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0172-x     Document Type: Article

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