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Langerhans cell histiocytosis

最后审阅: 17 Aug 2025
最后更新: 04 Mar 2025

小结

定义

病史和体格检查

关键诊断因素

  • age <15 years
  • bone pain and/or swelling
  • skin rash
  • polyuria and polydipsia
  • growth or sexual maturation failure
  • vertebra plana
  • hepatosplenomegaly
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其他诊断因素

  • cough, dyspnea
  • chest pain
  • orbital abnormalities
  • jaundice
  • ascites
  • cytopenias
  • fever
  • anorexia
  • weight loss
  • irritability
  • ear pain
  • ear discharge
  • hearing loss
  • perforated tympanic membrane
  • headache
  • neurologic signs
  • bloody diarrhea
  • oral mucosa lesions
  • lymphadenopathy
  • thyroid enlargement
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危险因素

  • smoking
  • family history of thyroid disease
  • perinatal infections
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诊断性检查

首要检查

  • CBC
  • LFTs
  • serum albumin
  • renal function
  • serum electrolytes
  • serum calcium
  • inflammatory markers
  • endocrine evaluation (adults)
  • BRAF V600E mutation analysis
  • skeletal survey (children)
  • chest x-ray (children)
  • abdominal ultrasound (children)
  • fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) (adults)
  • MRI head with contrast (adults)
  • tissue biopsy
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需考虑的检查

  • endocrine evaluation (children)
  • coagulation studies (children)
  • pulmonary function tests
  • echocardiogram
  • high-resolution CT chest
  • audiometry
  • bone marrow aspirate and biopsy
  • MRI head with contrast (children)
  • MRI spine
  • CT head
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治疗流程

急症处理

single-system disease: bone involvement

single-system disease: skin involvement

single-system disease: isolated lymph node involvement

single-system disease: lung involvement

single-system disease: CNS involvement

single-system disease: neurodegenerative disease

multisystem disease

持续性治疗

relapsed/refractory disease

撰稿人

作者

Gaurav Goyal, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Department of Medicine

Division of Hematology/Oncology

Birmingham

AL

利益声明

GG has been reimbursed for advisory board by Opna Bio LLC, and receives royalties from UpToDate.

鸣谢

Dr Gaurav Goyal would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Oussama Abla and Professor Kimo Stine, previous contributors to this topic.

利益声明

OA declares that he has no competing interests. KS declares that he serves on the Board of the Histiocytosis Association (a nonprofit organization), has provided advice for a legal firm reviewing a case of LCH, and receives honoraria for membership of advisory boards to Pfizer and Behring.

同行评议者

R. Maarten Egeler, MD, PhD

Director of Pediatric Immunology, Hematology, Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplantation, and Autoimmune Diseases

Leiden University Medical Center

Leiden

The Netherlands

利益声明

RME has previously worked with Dr Abla on a review of LCH. RME is an author of several references cited in this topic.

Rima Jubran, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Keck School of Medicine

University of Southern California

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Los Angeles

CA

Declarações

RJ declares that she has no competing interests.

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Disclosures

Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.

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Principais artigos

Haupt R, Minkov M, Astigarraga I, et al; Euro Histio Network. Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH): guidelines for diagnosis, clinical work-up, and treatment for patients till the age of 18 years. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Feb;60(2):175-84.Texto completo  Resumo

Goyal G, Tazi A, Go RS, et al. International expert consensus recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis in adults. Blood. 2022 Apr 28;139(17):2601-21.Texto completo  Resumo

Rodriguez-Galindo C, Allen CE. Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Blood. 2020 Apr 16;135(16):1319-31.Texto completo  Resumo

National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: histiocytic neoplasms [internet publication].Texto completo

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