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.)
Orbital xanthogranulomatosis
Blanco Mateos G.
Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol. 2005 Jun;80(6):329-30. Review Spanish
Unusual Nonneoplastic Peritoneal and Subperitoneal Conditions: CT Findings
Perry J. Pickhardt, MD and Sanjeev Bhalla, MD
RadioGraphics 2005;25:719-730
PP3. Eredheim-Chester Disease: Yet Another Mimic of Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis?
E.C. Derrett-Smith and B. Dasgupta.
Rheumatology 2005 44(Supplement 3):iii14-iii15; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh756.
Bone Involvement in Erdheim-Chester Disease: Imaging Findings including Periostitis and Partial Epiphyseal Involvement
Elisabeth Dion, MD, Claire Graef, MD, Anne Miquel, MD, Julien Haroche, MD, Bertrand Wechsler, MD, Zahir Amoura, MD, Delphine Zeitoun, MD, Philippe A. Grenier, MD, Jean-Claude Piette, MD and Jean-Denis Laredo, MD.
Radiology 2005;238:632-639.
Case 78: Erdheim-Chester Disease with Central Nervous System. Involvement
Carmen Adem, MD, Olivier Hilie, MD, Christophe Livjque, MD, Hervi Taillia, MD and Yves-Sibastien Cordoliani, MD.
Radiology 2005;234:111-115.
Laparoscopic Biopsy and Ureterolysis in Erdheim-Chester Disease
Erik P. Castle, MD; Mitchell R. Humphreys, MD; Paul E. Andrews, MD
Mayo Clin Proc. 2005;80:546-548.
Renal bone disease
Lee JH, Stodell M, Fowler JC.
J R Soc Med. 2005 Apr;98(4):165-6.
Intradural spinal vein enlargement in craniospinal hypotension
Burtis MT, Ulmer JL, Miller GA, Barboli AC, Koss SA, Brown WD.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2005 Jan;26(1):34-8.
Fulminant Multisystem Non–Langerhans Cell Histiocytic Proliferation With Hemophagocytosis. A Variant Form of Erdheim-Chester Disease
R. Nagarjun Rao, MD; Chung-che Chang, MD, PhD; Nevin Uysal, MD; Kenneth Presberg, MD; Vinod B. Shidham, MD; Joseph F. Tomashefski, Jr., MD
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Vol. 129, No. 2, pp. e39-e43. 2005.
Erdheim-Chester disease (comment)
Rhodes B, Jawad AS.
J R Soc Med. 2005 Apr;98(4):165-6.
High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for adult histiocytic disorders with central nervous system involvement
Nathalie Gaspar Pascaline Boudou, Julien Haroche, Bertrand Wechsler, Eric Van Den Neste, Khe Hoang-Xuan, Zahir Amoura, Remy Guillevin, Julien Savatovski, Nabih Azar, Jean-Charles Piette, Véronique Leblond
Haematologica 2006; 91:1121-1125
A Unique Pulmonary Presentation of Erdheim-Chester Disease
Joanne M. Bando, MD and Silverio Santiago, MD.
American College of Chest Physicians 2006.