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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Clinical subtype'''|| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis'''
:* Acute and lymphomatous subtypes have a poor prognosis, where as chronic and smouldering subtypes have a good prognosis.
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Isolated pulmonary involvement
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Adults
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Smoking
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Good prognosis with smoking cessation
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Age'''|| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;"|
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Unifocal Langerhans cell histiocytosis'''
:* Males are associated with a worse prognosis when compared to females.
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Isolated bone involvement
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Children
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Familial predisposition
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Good prognosis, may spontaneously regress
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Performance status'''|| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;"|
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Multifocal unisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis,'''
:* Patient's poor [[performance status]] is associated with a worse prognosis.
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Triad of diabetes insipidus, exopthalmos, and lytic bone lesions
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |2–10 years of age
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Familial predisposition
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Good prognosis, may spontaneously regress
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Performance status'''|| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;"|
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC; font-weight: bold" align=center | '''Multifocal unisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis,'''
:* Patient's poor [[performance status]] is associated with a worse prognosis.
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Involves skin, lungs, bone, and GI tract
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Younger than 2 years of age
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Familial predisposition
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align=center |Poor prognosis
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Revision as of 16:00, 3 February 2016

  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis may be classified according to the extent of organs involvement into 4 groups: pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, unifocal Langerhans cell histiocytosis, multifocal unisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis, and multifocal multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
  • The table below lists the features of each specific Langerhans cell histiocytosis subtype:
Subtype Organ Involvement Age Risk Factors Prognosis
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis Isolated pulmonary involvement Adults Smoking Good prognosis with smoking cessation
Unifocal Langerhans cell histiocytosis Isolated bone involvement Children Familial predisposition Good prognosis, may spontaneously regress
Multifocal unisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis, Triad of diabetes insipidus, exopthalmos, and lytic bone lesions 2–10 years of age Familial predisposition Good prognosis, may spontaneously regress
Multifocal unisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis, Involves skin, lungs, bone, and GI tract Younger than 2 years of age Familial predisposition Poor prognosis