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Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis causing spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax in a child

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Bilateral pneumothorax is very rare in childhood. Moreover, if it is due to pulmonary involvement of Langerhans cell histiocytosis, it is even rarer in childhood. In our case, a nonsmoker 12-year-old boy presented with bilateral pneumothorax, whose high-resolution computed tomography scan was highly suggestive of pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Excision biopsy of a clinically palpable cervical lymph node and histopathological examination and immunohistochemistry positivity for CD1a indicated a diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Clinicians should consider pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis in differential diagnoses in dealing such a case.

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  1. Department of Pulmonary Medicine, NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India

    Anupam Patra MD, Sujit K. Bhattacharyay & Arnab Maji

  2. Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Bankura Sammilani Medical College, Bankura, West Bengal, India

    Abhijit Mandal

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Patra, A., Bhattacharyay, S.K., Maji, A. et al. Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis causing spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax in a child. Egypt J Intern Med 27, 38–39 (2015). https://doi.org/10.4103/1110-7782.155856

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