An infant with self-healing cutaneous Langerhans cell histiocytosis followed by isolated thymic relapse

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-231

  Hatakeyama, Naoki ^a   Hori, Tsukasa ^a   Yamamoto, Masaki ^a   Sogawa, Ineko ^a   Inazawa, Natsuko ^a   Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki ^a   Suzuki, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cutaneous lesion; Infant; Langerhans cell histiocytosis; Thymus

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SOLUBLE INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; T6 ANTIGEN; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANCY; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MICROSCOPY; PAPULOVESICULAR RASH; PETECHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SWELLING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMUS DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE; THYMUS;

BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; MALE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SKIN DISEASES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 67649977313     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22026     Document Type: Article

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