Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nesrin Mogulkoc
• Ali Veral
• Paul W. Bishop
• Ülkü Bayindir
• C. Anthony C. Pickering
• Jim J. Egan

Titel

Pulmonary Langerhans’ Cell Histiocytosis

Ist Teil von

• Chest, 1999-05, Vol.115 (5), p.1452

Ort / Verlag

American College of Chest Physicians

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We describe two patients with histologically proven pulmonary Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis in whom radiologic improvement occurred following smoking cessation. The patients had 23- and 25-pack-year smoking histories, respectively. High-resolution CT revealed multiple small nodules, located predominantly in the upper and middle lung fields. There was a close temporal relationship between smoking cessation and radiologic improvement. Abbreviations: BLPs = bombesin-like peptides; CD10/NEP = CD10/neutral endopeptidase; CRP = C-reactive protein; D lco = diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide; HRCT = high-resolution CT; LCH = Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis; TLC = total lung capacity