Langerhans cell histiocytosis presenting as blueberry muffin baby.

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Blueberry muffin baby is a descriptive term for purpuric lesions reflective of extramedullary hematopoeisis. The clinical lesions most commonly result from intrauterine infections, such as rubella and cytomegalovirus, and less commonly with malignancy and hematologic disorders. Langerhans cell histiocytosis is a clonal proliferation of dendritic histiocytes in the skin. This has very rarely been associated with a...

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