Benign cephalic histiocytosis

See also: Neonatal cephalic pustulosis

Benign cephalic histiocytosis
Classification and external resources
Specialty	hematology
ICD-10	D76.3 (ILDS D76.320)

Benign cephalic histiocytosis (also known as "Histiocytosis with intracytoplasmic worm-like bodies",^[1] and not to be confused with "Neonatal cephalic pustulosis") is a rare cutaneous condition affecting boys and girls equally, characterized by skin lesions that initially present on the head in all cases, often the cheeks, eyelids, forehead, and ears.^[2]^:717

References

↑ Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 1-4160-2999-0.
↑ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0.

Histiocytosis (D76.0, 277.89)

WHO-I/Langerhans cell histiocytosis/ X-type histiocytosis	Letterer–Siwe disease Hand–Schüller–Christian disease Eosinophilic granuloma Congenital self-healing reticulohistiocytosis

WHO-II/non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis/ Non-X histiocytosis	Juvenile xanthogranuloma Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis Erdheim-Chester disease Niemann-Pick disease Sea-blue histiocyte Benign cephalic histiocytosis Generalized eruptive histiocytoma Xanthoma disseminatum Progressive nodular histiocytosis Papular xanthoma Hereditary progressive mucinous histiocytosis Reticulohistiocytosis (Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis, Reticulohistiocytoma) Indeterminate cell histiocytosis

WHO-III/malignant histiocytosis	Histiocytic sarcoma Langerhans cell sarcoma Interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma

Ungrouped	Rosai–Dorfman disease

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