[Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Report of four cases].
Langerhans cell histiocytosis implies the proliferation and accumulation of anomalous, cytologically benign tissue macrophages in a given site. In the Hospital General y Universitario of Alicante, Spain, from 1975 to 1996 four patients presented with granulomatosis and otorhinolaryngological signs and symptoms: a 7-year-old girl with a right mastoid eosinophil granuloma, a 2-month-old boy with Letterer-Siwe syndrome whose illness started as acute mastoiditis, a 23-month-old boy who developed eosinophil granulomas of both mastoids and one ischium, and an 8-month-old girl with a right zygomatico-temporal eosinophil granuloma. The treatment and clinical course of each case is described and compared with the results of other authors.
Menaches
M I
MI
Servicio de ORL, Hospital General, Alicante.
Burgos
A
A
Sancho
M
M
Gras
J R
JR
Marco
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D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006646:Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008416:Mastoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Histiocitosis de células de langerhans. A propósito de cuatro casos.