Chest computed tomography findings for a cohort of children with pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Valeria Della ValleJean DonadieuChiara SileoMohamed Aziz BarkaouiSébastien HéritierHervé J BrisseNathalie BoutryCatherine TréguierJean-François ChateilPhilippe PetitJean-Pierre PracrosPascal ChastagnerCorinne BoyerFrancis VeillonChantal DurandCharbel MounayerMarianne KambouchnerMichel BraunerAbdellatif TaziRalp EpaudHubert Ducou le Pointe

Published in: Pediatric blood & cancer (2020)

Well-known characteristics of adult PLCH (nodules and cysts) were observed in children. The chest CT scores proposed by adult pulmonologists could easily be applied to childhood PLCH. Lesions in children, unlike those in adults, are frequently located near the costophrenic angles. Alveolar consolidation might be considered an atypical feature of childhood PLCH.

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computed tomography
young adults
childhood cancer
pulmonary hypertension
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance imaging
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