%0 Journal Article
%T A rare case of Erdheim-Chester disease in the breast
%A Aboelkhair M. Al-gahmi
%A Elham Rawah
%A Razan F. Binyousef
%A Zahid Rahman Khan
%J Archive of "Annals of Saudi Medicine".
%D 2017
%R 10.5144/0256-4947.2017.79
%X Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is rare non-Langerhans histiocytosis with distinctive radiologic and pathologic entities. We report a rare case of which ECD was involving the breast with only eight similar cases reported in the English literature. Our patient was a 52-year-old female patient with ECD involving the breast, mesentery, left kidney, retroperitoneum and the skeleton. The diagnosis was based on distinctive imaging and histopathological findings. The patient received a new novel treatment as part of a clinical trial in the United States and showed clinical and radiological improvement
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148982/