Langerhans cell hystiocytosis in a child with a heavy hemocolitis

Abstract

The article presents a brief information about Langerhans cell hystiocytosis - a rare granulomatous proliferative disease in which there is an infiltration of one or more organs by Langerhans cells. A detailed description of the clinical case of this disease in a child of the first year of life with a rare variant of the onset of the disease in the form of a severe hormone-dependent lesion of the colon, which occurred with the leading symptom of hemocolitis.