29 Year‐Old Male with Seizure and Syncope

Abstract

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), previously referred to as histiocytosis X, is a dendritic cell histiocytic tumor that demonstrates a variable spectrum of organ involvement. Clinical syndromes within this entity include eosinophilic granuloma, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Abt-Letterer-Siwe Disease, and Hashimoto-Pritzker disease. Currently, it is classified on the basis of extent, such as unifocal, multifocal, or disseminated disease. LCH typically occurs in childhood and adolescence as solitary osteolytic lesions. When involving the central nervous system, it is usually either a result of extra-axial extension from skull vault epicenters, or is restricted to the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. Discrete intraparenchymal, intra-axial CNS lesions are rare. This report presents a case of an intra-axial LCH in a 29 year-old male who, following this diagnosis, was found to have multiple pulmonary lesions on imaging, attributed to the same disease process.

Isolated hypothalamic-pituitary langerhans’ cell histiocytosis in female adult

“…Though isolated CNS LCH is reported, CNS LCH is mainly diagnosed as multisystemic disease, and the majority of CNS LCH patients are men. [21,22] In this article, we present a rare case about a solitary hypothalamic-hypophysial axis involved female adult who develop central diabetes insipidus (CDI) and anterior pituitary hormone deficiency (APD).…”