Chatterjee T, Naithani Rahul, Agrawal Neerja, Bhattacharya Jina, Bhattacharya Maitraii, Dutta P, Pati H P, Mahapatra M, Choudhary V P
Department of Hematology, AIIMS, New Delhi.
Indian J Pathol Microbiol. 2006 Apr;49(2):248-50.
A 2-year-old boy presented with fever, recurrent infections and multiple skin lesions. He had anemia, eczematous skin lesions, cervical lymph node enlargement, hepatomegaly and lytic lesions on skull x-ray. The skin infiltrates were CD 68, CD 1a positive and S100 positive. He was diagnosed as disseminated langerhans cell histiocytosis. The occurrence of histiocytosis is reviewed and possible treatment is discussed.
