Systemic juvenile xanthogranuloma with fatal outcome

Pediatr Dermatol. 2009 Nov-Dec;26(6):709-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.2009.01018.x.

Abstract

Juvenile xanthogranuloma is a benign and self-limited disease which usually appears in the skin of children. Visceral involvement has been rarely reported, as has fatal outcome in some affected individuals. We report a case of systemic juvenile xanthogranuloma in a female newborn with mainly skin, bone marrow, and liver involvement, leading to death at the age of 2 months.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Histiocytes / pathology
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Liver / pathology
  • Liver Failure / pathology*
  • Pancytopenia / pathology*
  • Skin / pathology*
  • Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile / pathology*