Isolated Thymic Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis / 대한소아혈액종양학회지

ABSTRACT

Langerhans cell histiocytosis is a rare disease in which the Langerhans cells proliferate abnormally, like a cancer, and involve various tissues and organs, such as skin, bone, lung, lymph node, liver and spleen. Especially, in the younger age, it usually involves more organs and tissues, sometimes including the thymus. But isolated involvement of thymus is very rare. We report an 11-month-old-girl with an isolated thymic involvement of Langerhans cell histiocytosis with a brief review of related literatures.