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Diagnostic challenges in a child with familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis type 3 (FHLH3) presenting with fulminant neurological disease.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery - 1 Feb 2009
Weisfeld-Adams James D, Frank Yitzchak, Havalad Vinod, Hojsak Joanne M, Posada Roberto, Kaicker Shipra M, Wistinghausen Birte
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BACKGROUND: Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH) is an autosomal recessively inherited multisystem disease characterized by fever, rash, splenomegaly, cytopenias, and variable central nervous system (CNS) manifestations. CASE HISTORY: We report the case of a 3-year-old boy who presented with splenomegaly and normocytic anemia 4 months after returning to the US from a region endemic for Leishmania...
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