A Retrospective Evaluation of Cases with Adult-Onset Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: A Single-Center Experience of 14 Cases

Volume: 6 Number: 2 January 1, 2020
  • Hacer Berna Afacan Öztürk
  • Murat Albayrak
  • Abdulkerim Yıldız
  • Senem Maral
  • Pınar Cömert
  • Merih Reis Aras
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A Retrospective Evaluation of Cases with Adult-Onset Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: A Single-Center Experience of 14 Cases

Abstract

Objective: Langerhans cell histiocytosis LHH is a disease group of unknown etiology that causes tissue injury as a result of the local or systemic accumulation of atypical histiocytes in various tissues such as skin, bone, lungs, liver, lymph nodes, mucocutaneous tissues, and endocrine organs. We aimed to report the demographic and clinical properties of 14 LLH cases diagnosed and followed at our center.Material and Methods: This study retrospectively enrolled 14 patients 7 females, 7 males having a diagnosis of LLH who were followed up at the Health Sciences University Ankara Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital, Department of Hematology between 01-March-2011 and 30-September-2019.Results: Five patients had bone involvement; 5 had lymph node, 3 had skin, 2 had brain, 1 had liver, 1 had lung, 1 had uterine, 1 had parotid, 1 had colon, and 1 had thyroid involvement. At the end of a total follow-up period of 103 months, all patients are alive. All patients with single organ involvement were treated surgically while 3 patients with multisystemic involvement received chemotherapy containing cladribine.Conclusion: There were only 14 adults diagnosed with LHH at our center over a period of 8 years. Treatment is tailored to patient’s symptoms and compressive signs of a mass. While patients may be managed conservatively, without treatment, they may have a rapid and grave prognosis that requires commencing urgent therapy. Is a variable clinical course a characteristic feature of the disease or do inadequate and ineffective treatments unfavorably affect prognosis? Are solely local treatments effective? There is a need for studies with larger patient series

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Murat Albayrak This is me

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1.Hacer Berna Afacan Öztürk, Murat Albayrak, Abdulkerim Yıldız, Senem Maral, Pınar Cömert, Merih Reis Aras. A Retrospective Evaluation of Cases with Adult-Onset Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: A Single-Center Experience of 14 Cases. Akd Med J [Internet]. 2020 Jan. 1;6(2):277-80. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA22UC88RG