Progressive mucinous histiocytosis is a very rare, benign, non-Langerhans' cell histiocytosis limited to the skin. In total ten patients (all women) in four families and three sporadic cases have been reported. We report here the first published case of a male patient with progressive mucinous histiocytosis. The multiple red papules on the scalp and forearms were asymptomatic and had slowly inc...

Reported here is a case of Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis (LCH), which occurred to a 1-year-old boy presented init ial ly with fever and rightshoulder swelling. In this case, plain radiography and CT revealed an ill-defined osteolytic lesion associated with surrounding soft tissue mass in the right glenoid area. The boy underwent debridement and the specimens were seen to be involved by the Lan...

Intracranial involvement with histiocytosis is usually limited to the hypothalamus and associated with extensive extracranial disease. We report the CT and MR findings in a patient with biopsy-proved histiocytosis presenting as multifocal intracranial involvement without any systemic disease. While extrahypothalamic CNS involvement by histiocytosis is well recognized (1-9], infiltrative brain i...

Langerhans cell neoplasms, which include histiocytosis and sarcoma, are tumors that originate from dendritic cells. sarcoma is defined as a high-grade neoplasm with overtly malignant cytological features the cell-like phenotype, generally has poorer prognosis more aggressive phenotype than histiocytosis. Insulin-like growth factor 2 messenger RNA-binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3 or IMP3) an oncofetal...

Clinical features, brain magnetic resonance imaging findings and EDSS scores of 11 patients with neurodegenerative central nervous system Langerhans cell histiocytosis were analyzed in Japan. All patients initially had multi-system-type Langerhans cell histiocytosis; 8 at 1-2 years of age and 3 at a later age. Neurodegenerative central nervous system Langerhans cell histiocytosis disease develo...

BACKGROUND Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), previously known as Histiocytosis X, is an infrequent disease that congregates a wide spectrum of clinical presentations with variable systemic involvement. Unification of these diseases under only one category is based on the almost identical histopathologic features of the lesions, but the etiology and proper approach for each presentation remai...

purpose : fine needle aspiration (fna) cytologic findings of langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch) have been well described, but using this method in the diagnosis of orbital lesions is a recent experience. we hereby report two cases of orbital bone lch diagnosed by fna that later was confirmed by routine h&e; histopathology and immunohistochemistry (ihc) methods. case reports : the first case wa...

BACKGROUND Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a proliferative disease of histiocyte-like cells that generally affects children. Immunohistochemistry is essential to obtain the correct diagnosis, and treatment protocols are controversial. OBJECTIVE Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is easy to be misdiagnosed because of its various clinic features and laboratory results. This research foc...

The synchronous or metachronous development of Langerhans cell histiocytosis and non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis in the same patient is rare. To date, only seven cases of xanthogranulomas developing in young patients with a history of Langerhans cell histiocytosis and systemic therapy have been reported in the literature. As of yet, the pathogenesis and the clinical significance of this pheno...