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Histiocytosis

What are the causes?

The cause of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) is unknown.

Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) occurs in primary and secondary forms and secondary HLH typically occurs in people receiving treatment that reduces the function of the body's immune system (immune suppressive therapy), or children born with inherited abnormalities of immunity.

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Medical text written December 1997 by Dr David Webb Consultant Paediatric Haematologist/Oncologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK. Last updated September 2006 by Professor Peter Beverley, Institute for Vaccine Research, Newbury, UK.

 

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