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.)
Intraocular involvement in Erdheim-Chester disease – first report in the literature: case report
Biccas Neto L, Zanetti F.
Arq Bras Oftalmol. 2007 Sep-Oct;70(5):862-7 [Article in Portuguese]
Orbital involvement in Erdheim-Chester disease
Winnie WY Lau, Edwin Chan, Clement WN Chan
Hong Kong Med J 2007;13:238-40
Multisystem Erdheim-Chester disease; a unique presentation with liver and axial skeletal involvement
Gupta A, Aman K, Al-Babtain M, Al-Wazzan H, Morouf R
Br J Haematol. 2007 Aug;138(3):280. Epub 2007 Jun 6 .
An unusual cause of knee pain
Charest M, Haider EA, Rush C.
Br J Radiol. 2007 Mar;80(951):227-9.
Images in cardiovascular medicine. Magnetic resonance imaging guiding pacemaker implantation for severe sinus node dysfunction due to cardiac involvement in Erdheim-Chester disease
Elgeti T, Schlegl M, Nitardy A, Kivelitz DE, Stockburger M.
Circulation. 2007 Apr 24;115(16):e412-4
Case 572 — A 60 year old woman with an extra-axial frontal mass
Naomi Arakaki, MD1; Miguel A. Riudavets, MD1; Andrés Cervio, MD2; Marcelo Ferreira, MD2; Gustavo Sevlever, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2008 – Department of Pathology
Imatinib mesylate for platelet-derived growth factor receptor-beta-positive Erdheim-Chester histiocytosis
Julien Haroche, Zahir Amoura, Frederic Charlotte, Juan Salvatierra, Bertrand Wechsler, Carlos Graux, Nicole Brousse, and Jean-Charles Piette
Blood. 2008 Jun 1;111(11):5413-5
Pericarditis Heralding Erdheim-Chester Disease
Augusto Vaglio, MD; Domenico Corradi, MD; Roberta Maestri, PhD; Sergio Callegari, MD; Carlo Buzio, MD; Carlo Salvarani, MD
Circulation. 2008;118:e511-e512
Erdheim-Chester disease in children: clinical, radiologic, treatment characteristics of three cases
S Eyssette-Guerreau, C Job-Deslandre, M Taghian, J Donadieu, P Thierry, J Haroche, M Taylor, I Koné-Paut and TA Tran
Pediatric Rheumatology 2008, 6(Suppl 1):P129
A rare cause of cardiac tumour: an Erdheim-Chester disease with cardiac involvement co-existing with an intracerebral Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Granier M, Micheau A, Serre I.
Eur Heart J. 2008 Aug;29
A rare histiocytosis with severe cardiac involvement: Erdheim-Chester disease
Botelho A, Antunes A, Almeida JC, Abecasis M, de Gouveia RH, Martins AP, Marques AM.
Rev Port Cardiol. 2008 May;27(5):727-40
A case of cerebral erdheim-chester disease with progressive cerebellar syndrome
Na SJ, Lee KO, Kim JE, Kim YD.
J Clin Neurol. 2008 Mar;4(1):45-50. Epub 2008 Mar 20.