Experience of prolonged treatment of hand-Schüller-Christian disease with prednisolone.
An account is presented of the experience acquired in the prolonged prednisolone treatment, at 2-day intervals, of 6 patients with Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. A substantial improvement was observed in the basic process, with scarcely any side-effects. On the basis of the literature data and the present findings, glucocorticoid administration every second day is recommended for the treatment of these patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006646:Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D011239:Prednisolone