ABSTRACT
La histiocitosis eruptiva generalizada, conjuntamente con el xantogranuloma juvenil, constituyen desórdenes histiocíticos de origen dendrítico (también denominados histiocitosis no Langerhans), que comparten características clínico-patológicas e inmunohistoquímicas. Presentamos a una paciente de 3 años de edad con lesiones en la piel clínicamente compatibles con histiocitosis eruptiva generalizada y confirmadas mediante histología e inmunohistoquímica. Luego presentó compromiso en el sistema nervioso central, por lo que fue intervenida quirúrgicamente. En la histopatología de esta lesión, se encontraron células de Touton, compatibles con el diagnóstico de xantogranuloma juvenil. Este caso clínico demuestra la necesidad de considerar estas enfermedades como espectro de una misma entidad.
Both, generalized eruptive histiocytosis and juvenile xanthogranuloma are dendritic histiocytic disorders (also known as non-Langerhans cells histiocytosis) that share clinicopathological and immunohistiochemical characteristics. We present a 3-year-old female patient with skin lesions that were clinically compatible with generalized eruptive histiocytosis, confirmed by histopathological and immunohistochemical studies. During her development the disorder compromised the central nervous system, and surgical intervention of one symptomatic lesion was needed. The histopathological exam of the central nervous system lesion showed Touton cells, compatible with a diagnosis of juvenile xanthogranuloma. This case demonstrates the need to consider these diseases as a spectrum of the same entity.
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Humans , Female , Child, Preschool , Histiocytosis/pathology , Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile/pathology , Histiocytosis/complications , Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile/complicationsABSTRACT
Generalized eruptive histiocytosis (GEH) is a rare cutaneous histiocytosis that mainly affects adults and presents with multiple symmetric papules on face, trunk, and proximal extremities. GEH is included in type IIa (histiocytes involving cells of dermal dendrocyte lineage) of histiocytic disorders. Clinical and pathological correlations are required for differentiating GEH from other histiocytic disorders and from lepromatous leprosy which clinically mimic GEH and is prevalent in India. We report a case of a middle-aged woman who presented with generalized asymptomatic papules and nodules and was treated for leprosy but was finally diagnosed to have GEH after clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical correlation. Furthermore, the newer lesions also showed features of progressive nodular histiocytosis.