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Hervey-Jumper SL, Ghori A, Ziewacz JE, McKeever PE, Chandler WF. Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the optic chiasm: case report. Neurosurgery 2011; 68:E556-61. [PMID: 21135729 DOI: 10.1227/neu.0b013e31820206c7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an uncommon disease, usually affecting the cranium and peripheral bones. We present a rare case of isolated optic chiasm involvement by LCH to highlight the importance of considering LCH in the differential diagnosis of optic chiasm lesions. CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 71-year-old woman presented with a 6-week history of worsening peripheral vision, headaches, weakness, cold sensitivity, and fatigue. She was found to have dense bitemporal hemianopsia. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 2-cm lesion, contrast enhancing on T1 and bright on T2 signal, involving the optic chiasm but not the pituitary gland. Preoperative considerations included optic nerve glioma, choristoma of the stalk, sarcoid, hypothalamic glioma, and Langerhans cell histiocytosis. The patient underwent a right subfrontal craniotomy for biopsy of the lesion. The optic chiasm was grossly enlarged with no tissue external to the chiasm. A midline incision was made in the lamina terminalis, and multiple biopsies were taken of firm fibrous material. Histologically, the tumor was characteristic for LCH and included a mixture of histiocytes with features of Langerhans cells, eosinophils, small lymphocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, and plasma cells. CONCLUSION LCH is a rare disease, generally affecting bone, skin, lymph nodes, and in more severe cases, visceral organs. LCH involving the optic pathways is a rare condition that should be included in the differential for adults with mass lesions involving the orbit, eye, optic nerve, or chiasm. Future clinical and basic science research is needed to better understand LCH, its molecular origin, and its growth pattern.
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- Shawn L Hervey-Jumper
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Ng-Cheng-Hin B, O'Hanlon-Brown C, Alifrangis C, Waxman J. Langerhans cell histiocytosis: old disease new treatment. QJM 2011; 104:89-96. [PMID: 21084318 DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcq206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) has been previously thought of as a rare illness, but is now increasingly diagnosed as a result of the more intensive investigations of patients with cystic pulmonary disease. In recent years, treatments developed from our new understanding of the molecular biology of malignant disease have been applied to patients with LCH, and responses seen. In this review, we describe the origins, presentation and modern treatment of LCH, showing that there is new hope for patients with this condition.
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- B Ng-Cheng-Hin
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Division of Cancer, Imperial College London, Garry Weston Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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Craniofacial and Intracranial Manifestations of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: Report of Findings in 100 Patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008; 191:589-97. [DOI: 10.2214/ajr.07.3573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bös M, Grothe C, Urbach H, Schröder R. Zerebelläres Syndrom bei Langerhans-Zell-Histiozytose. DER NERVENARZT 2007; 78:437-40. [PMID: 17235421 DOI: 10.1007/s00115-006-2238-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We report a 24-year-old patient with a progressive cerebellar syndrome and history of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis. Neurological symptoms started 5 years after completion of combined radio- and chemotherapy which had led to complete and permanent remission of the primary disease. The clinical and neuroradiological findings obtained mirror progressive neurodegenerative alterations of the cerebellum that represent one of the three classic CNS manifestations of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis.
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- M Bös
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie und Epileptologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn.
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Büchler T, Cervinek L, Belohlavek O, Kantorova I, Mechl M, Nebesky T, Vorlicek J, Adam Z. Langerhans cell histiocytosis with central nervous system involvement: follow-up by FDG-PET during treatment with cladribine. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2005; 44:286-8. [PMID: 15481071 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The prognosis of patients with Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) involving the central nervous system (CNS) is generally poor, despite reports of clinical responses to chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. We report on a patient with a 20-year history of relapsing multisystem LCH who developed progressive neuropsychiatric symptoms, including diplopia, ataxia, and mental deterioration. There was a regression of lesions in the brain stem and cerebellum following chemotherapy with cladribine (2-CdA) as evidenced by positron emission tomography (PET) scans. In conclusion, our experience is encouraging for the use of cladribine in CNS LCH. PET may be a useful modality for the monitoring of CNS disease activity in LCH and provides additional information in comparison with NMR imaging.
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- Tomas Büchler
- Department of Internal Medicine-Hematooncology, Masaryk University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Ben Ghorbel I, Houman MH, B'chir S, Chamakhi S, Miled M. [A disseminated form of Langerhans histiocytosis associated with diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus]. Rev Med Interne 2001; 22:469-74. [PMID: 11402519 DOI: 10.1016/s0248-8663(01)00373-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Langerhans' cell histiocytosis is a rare disorder of unknown etiology characterized by a wide clinical spectrum and varied behavior. Diabetes insipidus is a relatively common feature in Langerhans' cell histiocytosis. The presence of both diabetes insipidus and mellitus associated with histiocytosis in an adult is rare. To our knowledge, only three previous cases have been reported. EXEGESIS We report the clinical presentation, pathologic findings and clinical progress in an adult female who had disseminated Langerhans' cell histiocytosis (hypothalamic infiltration, multifocal bone involvement) associated with both diabetes insipidus and mellitus. CONCLUSION The pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus in such an association will be discussed.
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- I Ben Ghorbel
- Service de médecine interne, hôpital La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisie
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Barthez MA, Araujo E, Donadieu J. Langerhans cell histiocytosis and the central nervous system in childhood: evolution and prognostic factors. Results of a collaborative study. J Child Neurol 2000; 15:150-6. [PMID: 10757469 DOI: 10.1177/088307380001500302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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This retrospective study detailed clinical and radiologic involvement of the central nervous system related to Langerhans cell histiocytosis in 18 French children. We excluded cases of isolated hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction or spinal involvement. Cerebellar symptoms were the most common clinical symptoms. Two different patterns of magnetic resonance or computed tomographic images were identified: demyelination and gliosis or atrophy, described as degenerative lesions, mostly located in the cerebellum in 10 children, or tumor-like lesions occurring in any part of the brain in 13 children. Six children had both types of lesion. The clinical cerebellar syndrome correlated with the specific imaging pattern suggestive of a cerebellar degenerative lesion, which did not show any changes after treatment. As suggested by this study and previous clinical and histologic reports, it is believed that brain involvement in the course of Langerhans cell histiocytosis might arise from different disease mechanisms: primary histiocyte proliferation and secondary atrophy or demyelination and gliosis of unknown origin. Treatment consequently should be adapted to the supposed mechanism of the lesion.
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- M A Barthez
- Unité de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Gatien de Clocheville, CHU Tours, France.
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Whitsett SF, Kneppers K, Coppes MJ, Egeler RM. Neuropsychologic deficits in children with Langerhans cell histiocytosis. MEDICAL AND PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY 1999; 33:486-92. [PMID: 10531574 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-911x(199911)33:5<486::aid-mpo9>3.0.co;2-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND Manifestations of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) in children range from only a rash, to bony lesions accompanied by pain, to major organ disease. When the central nervous system (CNS) is affected, the LCH patient may exhibit signs and symptoms of hypothalamic and pituitary dysfunction (most often resulting in diabetes insipidus or other endocrinopathies) or more global neurologic and neuropsychologic sequelae. Surprisingly, researchers have only recently begun to examine the neuropsychologic manifestations of the disease, but early findings suggest that they may, in fact, be significant in a small percentage of children with LCH. PROCEDURE We evaluated two CNS-positive patients with LCH and long-term intermittent treatments, using extensive neuropsychologic assessments, including intellectual functioning, memory, visual-motor functioning, attention and concentration, sensory and motor performance, and gross academic achievement. Objective measures of behavior were obtained through parental report. Neuroradiologic imaging was obtained concurrently with the neuropsychologic evaluations. RESULTS The neuropsychologic assessments indicated significant deficits in a number of the measured areas of functioning. Global cognitive deficiencies in full-scale IQ were identified, as were deficits in memory, attention/concentration, and perceptual-organizational capabilities. Similarities were noted in the patterns of deficits obtained with both patients, despite differences in the pathophysiology of their disease. Behavioral functioning in both children had suffered, presumably in relation to the neuropsychologic deficits. There were radiologic findings of gross cerebellar white matter damage in one patient, in addition to focal (e.g., hypothalamic) lesions in the other. CONCLUSIONS LCH has an adverse impact on cognitive functions in some children with evidence of CNS involvement, and further study into the etiology, incidence, and means of remedial intervention is needed.
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- S F Whitsett
- Southern Alberta Children's Cancer Program, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Howarth DM, Gilchrist GS, Mullan BP, Wiseman GA, Edmonson JH, Schomberg PJ. Langerhans cell histiocytosis: diagnosis, natural history, management, and outcome. Cancer 1999; 85:2278-90. [PMID: 10326709 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19990515)85:10<2278::aid-cncr25>3.0.co;2-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 461] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND The objective of this descriptive analysis of a large cohort of patients with Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) was to add to the understanding of the natural history, management, and outcome of this disease. METHODS Three hundred fourteen Mayo Clinic patients with histologically proven LCH were categorized into those patients with multisystem disease and those patients with single system disease. Clinical features, treatment, and outcome were determined from the case history notes and tumor registry correspondence. Treatment included chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical excision. The end points were disease free survival, active disease, or death. The median time of follow-up was 4 years (range, 1 month to 47.5 years). RESULTS The age of the patients ranged from 2 months to 83 years. Of the 314 patients, there were 28 deaths. Multisystemic LCH was found in 96 patients, 25 of whom had continuing active disease after treatment. Isolated bone LCH lesions were observed in 114 of the 314 patients, 111 of whom (97%) achieved disease free survival after treatment. The most common sites of osseous LCH were the skull and proximal femur. Of the 87 patients with isolated pulmonary involvement, only 3 were nonsmokers. After treatment with corticosteroids (+/- cyclophosphamide or busulphan), 74 patients achieved disease free survival, but 10 patients died. Pituitary-thalamic axis LCH, characterized by diabetes insipidus, was found in 44 patients. After treatment, 30 of these patients had disease free survival, but all required long term hormone replacement with desmopressin acetate. Lymph node involvement was found in 21 patients, and mucocutaneous involvement was found in 77 patients. CONCLUSIONS Patients with isolated bone LCH lesions have the best prognosis compared with patients with LCH involvement of other systems. By contrast, 20% of patients with multisystem involvement have a progressive disease course despite treatment. The identification of prognostic indicators to facilitate appropriate treatment and long term follow-up surveillance is recommended.
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- D M Howarth
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Simms S, Warner NJ. A framework for understanding and responding to the psychosocial needs of children with Langerhans cell histiocytosis and their families. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 1998; 12:359-67. [PMID: 9561905 DOI: 10.1016/s0889-8588(05)70515-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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This article presents a five-point framework to help health-care providers understand and manage important psychosocial issues related to Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH). It entails frank and open discussions with patients and their families of how the disease can affect them individually and collectively. Each point is explained and then applied to two different cases. The framework is applicable to all chronic pediatric diseases, but is particularly relevant for rare conditions with unknown etiologies such as LCH.
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- S Simms
- Division of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Arceci RJ, Brenner MK, Pritchard J. Controversies and new approaches to treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 1998; 12:339-57. [PMID: 9561904 DOI: 10.1016/s0889-8588(05)70514-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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There continues to be genuine ambivalence as to whether Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a primary neoplastic or immuno-dysregulatory disorder. Treatment strategies have moved from one camp to the other depending upon the most current alleged successes or failures. This has been particularly true for patients who fall outside of the sphere where treatment is minimal or where known treatment approaches are clearly beneficial. However, there is growing evidence that LCH is both the result of clonal proliferation of Langerhans cells and the immunologic consequence of increased cellular activation. This new knowledge should be the basis for the development of new therapeutic approaches for patients with LCH and its complications.
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- R J Arceci
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Heckmann J, Holbach L, Huk W, Druschky A, Wigand M, Neundörfer B. Unifocal eosinophilic granuloma (Langerhans cell histiocytosis) of the supratemporal orbital bone in an adult. Neuroophthalmology 1998. [DOI: 10.1076/noph.19.1.49.3694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Dendritic cells are antigen-presenting cells derived from the hematopoietic stem cell. The dendritic cell family includes Langerhans' cells (CD1a-positive dendritic cells of the skin), and antigen-presenting cells that are found in the lymphoreticular system and throughout the organ parenchyme. Dendritic cells play a key role in both the primary and secondary immune responses. Several studies indicate that these cells participate in antitumor immunity, tumor surveillance, graft-versus-host disease, and in the pathogenesis of clinical syndromes of unknown origin or those induced by viruses, such as the human immunodeficiency virus. Different disorders are characterized by an abnormal proliferation and accumulation of dendritic cells; for example, the Langerhans' histiocytes, which accumulate in Langerhans' cell histiocytosis. In this review the immunophenotypic, morphological, and functional characteristics of the dendritic cell family is described. The clinical and laboratory studies suggesting a unique role for these cells in various syndromes and diseases are reviewed. The Langerhans' cell histiocytoses and the malignant disorders associated with transformation of cells belonging to the dendritic cell family, are discussed.
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- V Wright-Browne
- Department of Bioimmunotherapy, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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Miret C, Solé T, Pedrol E, Junqué JA, Vázquez F, Coca A, Urbano-Márquez A. Visual impairment in a woman with histiocytosis. Postgrad Med J 1995; 71:425-6. [PMID: 7567736 PMCID: PMC2397998 DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.71.837.425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- C Miret
- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain
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Goldberg-Stern H, Weitz R, Zaizov R, Gornish M, Gadoth N. Progressive spinocerebellar degeneration "plus" associated with Langerhans cell histiocytosis: a new paraneoplastic syndrome? J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1995; 58:180-3. [PMID: 7876848 PMCID: PMC1073314 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.58.2.180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), formerly known as histiocytosis-X, manifests by granulomatous lesions consisting of mixed histiocytic and eosinophilic cells. The hallmark of LCH invasion into the CNS is diabetes insipidus, reflecting local infiltration of Langerhans cells into the posterior pituitary or hypothalumus. In five patients who had early onset LCH with no evidence of direct invasion into the CNS, slowly progressive spinocerebellar degeneration accompanied in some by pseudobulbar palsy and intellectual decline was seen. Neurological impairment started 2.5 to seven years after the detection of LCH. No correlation was found between the clinical syndrome and location of LCH or its mode of treatment. An extensive search for metabolic, toxic, neoplastic, and hereditary aetiologies for progressive cerebellar degeneration was negative. It seems that the clinical entity described here may be considered a new paraneoplastic syndrome related to LCH. It may be induced by the eosinophil derived neurotoxin, which was shown to cause damage to Purkinje cells and pyramidal neurons.
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- H Goldberg-Stern
- Felsenstein Research Center, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel
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