This neoplasm is not reportable.

Name

Congenital self-healing reticulo-histiocytosis

Reportability

This neoplasm is not reportable

Abstractor Notes

Patients with this condition should be monitored carefully for relapses. Relapses often involve the bone and may progress to Letterer-Siwe disease, which is a disseminated form of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (9751/3).

Alternate Names

Congenital reticulohistiocytosis
Congenital self-healing Langerhans cell histiocytosis
CSHRH
Hashimoto-Pritzker disease

Definition

Rare condition, about 5% of all langerhan cell histiocytosis cases, which present usually at birth or in the neonatal period, with solitary, localized to generalized papules, vesicles, or nodules on the trunk, head, palms and soles.

Within several weeks, lesions tend to involute spontaneously leaving behind hypo- or hyperpigmented macules or patches.
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