"Erdheim-Chester Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				A rare form of non-Langerhans-cell histiocytosis (HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL) with onset in middle age. The systemic disease is characterized by infiltration of lipid-laden macrophages, multinucleated giant cells, an inflammatory infiltrate of lymphocytes and histiocytes in the bone marrow, and a generalized sclerosis of the long bones.
    
			
			
				
				
					
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							D031249
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							 C15.604.250.410.224 
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
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				Below are the most recent publications written about "Erdheim-Chester Disease" by people in Profiles.
						
					
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CLINICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING. From Dancing to Debilitated. N Engl J Med. 2016 Feb 04; 374(5):470-7.
															
								 
							
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Presence of Erdheim-Chester disease and Langerhans cell histiocytosis in the same patient: a report of 2 cases. J Neuroophthalmol. 2011 Sep; 31(3):217-23.