[Acute disseminated histiocytosis X. Presentation of a case].
The AA. report a case of acute, diffuse histiocytosis X with an unfavourable course observed in a child of 33 months. The histological diagnosis, formulated on the basis of specimen taken from a skin nodule, was confirmed by ultrastructural observation of Birbeck bodies in the cytoplasm of proliferating Langerhans cells.
Santa Cruz
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G
Dessy
E
E
Corrias
A
A
Puxeddu
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E
Nurchi
A M
AM
Frau
G
G
D000208:Acute Disease; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006646:Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
Istiocitosi x acuta disseminata. Presentazione di un caso.