Erdheim-Chester disease: Case report with multisystemic manifestations including testes, thyroid, and lymph nodes, and a review of literature

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1225-1228

  Sheu, S Y ^a,e   Wenzel, R R ^b   Kersting, C ^c   Merten, R ^d   Otterbach, F ^a   Schmid, K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b General Public Hospital Zell am See   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL INFILTRATION; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSITIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; TESTIS; THYROID GLAND;

ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TESTIS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 8444250660     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.018481     Document Type: Review

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