Medical Journal Articles
Published Papers on Erdheim-Chester Disease
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The articles listed by publication date. (Caution, these are medical journal articles and may contain information and/or pictures that could be disturbing to some.)
Treatment of refractory Erdheim-Chester disease with double autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation
Boissel N, Wechsler B, Leblond V.
Ann Intern Med. 2001 Nov 6;135(9):844-5. No abstract available.
Extensive inflammatory pseudotumor of the pituitary
Hansen I, Petrossians P, Thiry A, Flandroy P, Gaillard RC, Kovacs K, Claes F, Stevenaert A, Piguet P, Beckers A.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2001 Oct;86(10):4603-10.
A role for methotrexate in the management of non-infectious orbital inflammatory disease
Smith JR, Rosenbaum JT.
Br J Ophthalmol. 2001 Oct;85(10):1220-4.
Retroperitoneal complications of Erdheim-Chester disease
Leluc O, André M, Marciano S, Lafforgue P, Rossi D, Bartoli J.
J Radiol. 2001 May;82(5):580-2. French.
Erdheim-Chester Disease of the Retroperitoneum
Brian J. Fortman and Douglas P. Beall
AJR 2001; 176:1330-1331
Erdheim-Chester Disease: Case Report, PCR-Based Analysis of Clonality, and Review of Literature
Samer Al-Quran M.D., John Reith M.D., John Bradley B.S., and Lisa Rimsza M.D.
Mod Pathol 2002;15(6):666-672.
Erdheim-Chester Disease A Unique Presentation with Multiple Osteolytic Lesions of the Spine and Pelvis that Spared the Appendicular Skeleton
Michael Robert Klieger, Elizabeth Schultz, David Erick Elkowitz, Myron Arlen and Steven I. Hajdu.
AJR 2002; 178:429-432
Bilateral exophthalmos diabetes insipidus: Erdheim-Chester disease. Clinical and radiological findings
Le Goff L, Berros P, Denis D, Ridings B.
J Fr Ophtalmol. 2002 Jan;25(1):57-61. French.
Erdheim-Chester disease: typical radiological bone features for a rare xanthogranulomatosis
V Breuil, O Brocq, C Pellegrino, A Grimaud, L Euller-Ziegler
Ann Rheum Dis 2002;61:199-200
Erdheim-Chester disease: pulmonary infiltration responding to cyclophosphamide and prednisolone
S Bourke, A Nicholson, and G Gibson
Thorax. 2003 November; 58(11): 1004-1005.
Erdheim-Chester Disease A Unique Presentation With Liver Involvement and Vertebral Osteolytic
Doina Ivan, MD; Antonio Neto, MD; Luciano Lemos, MD; Arpan Gupta, MD
LesionsArch Pathol Lab Med – Vol 127, August 2003
Erdheim-Chester disease with early onset atherosclerosis and a pseudo-malignant phase
R L Neame, G R Struthers
Ann Rheum Dis 2003;62:271-272