[Unifocal Langerhans cell granulomatosis in a young woman].
We report a 24-years-old woman who presented with thoracic pain after coughing. Physical exam revealed no abnormalities except pain after pressing under blade-bone area. A rib radiography and CT of the thorax showed a lonely osteolytic lesion inside eleventh left costal arch without affecting others tissues. There were no more osteolytic lesions at other levels and the histopathological study of a resection-biopsy of the lesion was diagnosed as Langerhans' cell granulomatosis. This is an uncommon disease which diagnosis can only be made through histopathological study of suspected lesions.
Gómez Sánchez-Biezma
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Servicio de Medicina Interna III, Hospital Clínico Universitario de San Carlos, Madrid.
Pintor Holguín
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Téllez Molina
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Llamas Gascón
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Barreiro García
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006646:Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010014:Osteolysis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012272:Ribs