title: 29 year-old male with seizure and syncope. Intracerebral Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
abstract: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), previously referred to as histiocytosis X, is a dendritic cell histiocytic tumor that demonstrates a variable spectrum of organ involvement. Clinical syndromes within this entity include eosinophilic granuloma, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Abt-Letterer-Siwe Disease, and Hashimoto-Pritzker disease. Currently, it is classified on the basis of extent, such as unifocal, multifocal, or disseminated disease. LCH typically occurs in childhood and adolescence as solitary osteolytic lesions. When involving the central nervous system, it is usually either a result of extra-axial extension from skull vault epicenters, or is restricted to the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. Discrete intraparenchymal, intra-axial CNS lesions are rare. This report presents a case of an intra-axial LCH in a 29 year-old male who, following this diagnosis, was found to have multiple pulmonary lesions on imaging, attributed to the same disease process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Reading Hospital and Medical Center, West Reading, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Brian H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Le
authors.forename: Raymond C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Truex
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006644:Histiocytes / Q000473:pathology; D006646:Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology*; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology*