Horn, Markus and Stutte, H. J. and Schlote, W. (2002) Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (Farquhar's disease): involvement of the central nervous system. CLINICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY, 21 (4). pp. 139-144. ISSN 0722-5091
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The clinical course and the postmortal pathological findings in a female newborn showing parental consanguinity are presented. One week after birth, the infant developed fever, hepatosplenomegaly and polyserositis. Rapidly progressing immunodeficiency due to pancytopenia led to pneumonia and untreatable respiratory distress with fatal outcome after 2 weeks. Autopsy,findings revealed multisystem lymphohistiocytic infiltration with marked erythrophagocytosis. Neuropathological findings included lymphohistiocytic leptomeningitis, perivascular cuffing by lymphohistiocytic infiltrations in the cerebral white matter, predominantly in subependymal location, and multifocal lymphohistiocytic infiltrations of the cerebral grey matter and the cervical spinal cord. Erythrophagocytosis was the histopathological hallmark at all sites. Regarding the fatal clinical course, the medical history of parental consanguinity and the histopathological features, postmortem diagnosis was familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FEL, Farquhar's disease). The present case is discussed with focus on CNS involvement in FEL by reviewing the relevant literature.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS; lymphohistiocytosis; erythrophagocytosis; meningoencephalitis; pathology; neuropathology |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Neurologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2021 11:23 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2021 11:23 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/40105 |
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