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.)
Erdheim-Chester disease in Brazil
Lopes Marques CD, Duarte AL, Cavalcanti Fd Fde S
Ann Rheum Dis. 2003 Mar;62(3):270
Orbit xanthogranulomatosis. Erdheim-Chester disease
Rozas Reyes P, Señaris González A, González Rodríguez CM.
Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol. 2004 Oct;79(10):515-8. Spanish.
Imaging of Thoracoabdominal Involvement in Erdheim-Chester Disease
Elisabeth Dion, Claire Graef, Julien Haroche, Raphaële Renard-Penna, Philippe Cluzel, Bertrand Wechsler, Jean-Charles Piette and Philippe A. Grenier
AJR 2004; 183:1253-1260
Erdheim-Chester Disease Mimicking Multiple Meningiomas Syndrome
Mahlon D. Johnsona, Joseph P. Aulinob, Madan Jagasiac and Louise A. Mawn
American Journal of Neuroradiology 25:134-137, January 2004
Pulmonary and Ophthalmic Involvement With Erdheim-Chester Disease: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Allen, Timothy Craig, Chevez-Barrios, Patricia, Shetlar, Debra J, Cagle, Philip T.
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Dec 2004.
Erdheim-Chester disease: case report with multisystemic manifestations including testes, thyroid, and lymph nodes, and a review of literature
Sheu SY, Wenzel RR, Kersting C, Merten R, Otterbach F, Schmid KW
J Clin Pathol. 2004 Nov;57(11):1225-8
Treatment of Erdheim-Chester disease with cladribine: a rational approach
C Myra, L Sloper, P J Tighe, R S McIntosh, S E Stevens, R H S Gregson, M Sokal, A P Haynes, and R J Powell
Br J Ophthalmol. 2004 June; 88(6): 844-847.
Preoperative stent placement for intradural vertebral arterystenosis from a rare xanthogranuloma
Alan S. Boulos, M.D., Eric M. Deshaies, M.D., Jiang Qian, M.D., PH.D.,AND A. John Popp, M.D.
J Neurosurg 101:864–868, 2004.
High Resolution Images Obtained With Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Pericarotid Fibrosis in Erdheim-Chester Disease
Jean-Yves Gauvrit, MD; Catherine Oppenheim, MD, PhD; Marie Girot, MD; Marc Lambert, MD; Corinne Gautier, MD; Pierre Yves Hatron, MD, PhD; Jean-Pierre Pruvo, MD, PhD; Xavier Leclerc, MD; PhD
Circulation. 2004;110:e443-e444
Erdheim-Chester Disease: MR Imaging, Anatomic, and Histopathologic Correlation of Orbital Involvement
Marcelo R. de Abreua, Christine B. Chungb, Sandip Biswalb, Parvis Haghighib, John Hesselinkb and Donald Resnickb
American Journal of Neuroradiology 25:627-630, April 2004
Myocardial Involvement in Erdheim-Chester Disease
Agnes G. Loeffler, MD, PhD; Vincent A. Memoli, MD.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Vol. 128, No. 6, 2004; pp. 682-685.
Successful treatment of Erdheim-Chester disease, a non-Langerhans-cell histiocytosis with interferon-alpha
Fadi Braiteh, Cynthia Boxrud, Bita Esmaeli, and Razelle Kurzrock.
Blood, 1 November 2005, Vol. 106, No. 9, pp. 2992-2994.