Acute ataxia complicating Langherans cell histiocytosis
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Acute ataxia complicating Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
A case is reported of a 3 year old boy with an acute history of cerebellar impairment and x ray evidence of apparent chest infection. At postmortem examination, his lungs but not the nervous system were found to be massively infiltrated by Langherans histiocytes. In retrospect, the acute ataxia was diagnosed as a paraneoplastic phenomenon secondary to Langherans cell histiocytosis (LCH). This r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.86.2.130