ESPE Abstracts

Background: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disease with an incidence of less than 10 per million, and characterized by the clonal proliferation of pathogenic Langerhans cells. The clinical courses are diverse, ranging from spontaneously remitting single organ disease to life-threatening multisystem involvement. One of the serious complications of LCH is diabetes insipidus (DI), and patients with CNS-risk lesions had higher cumulative incidence of DI. On the othe...