Acute ataxia complicating Langherans cell histiocytosis
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 86 (2) , 130-131
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.86.2.130
Abstract
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 represents a unique occurrence complicating LCH in childhood.Keywords
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