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Dhiran Sivasubramanian1, Karthick Balasubramanian2, Mohamed Raghib Hussain Mohamed Kalifa3
1Department of Cardiology Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA.
Abstract:
Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD) is an extremely rare, non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis characterised by the proliferation of foamy histiocytes infiltrating various organs. It almost always presents with osteosclerosis of the long bones, making our case atypical due to the absence of skeletal involvement despite widespread infiltration of other organs.
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