Case Report
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 9 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 426-428
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Jaw in Pediatric Patient: A Rare Case Report
Neha Verma1, Adit Srivastav2, Naresh Kumar Sharma3, Kanupriya Gupta4
1Senior Resident, 2Professor, MDS (Oral medicine and Radiology)
Unit of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Institute Of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
3Professor, 4Senior Research Fellow,
MDS (Oral and maxillofacial pathology), Unit of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Institute Of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Corresponding Author: Neha Verma
ABSTRACT
Langerhans cell histiocytosis is a rare pathology of immune cells histiocytes. There is clonal proliferation of histiocytes affecting axial skeleton bones like skull, jaw, ribs, spine, femur and pelvis. This proliferation leads to osteolytic lesions in bones. Diagnosing patients with this disease is challenging as it encompasses features of several other infective, inflammatory and neoplastic conditions.
Key words: eosinophilic granuloma, langerhans cell histiocytosis, histiocytes, osteolytic lesions.