Cranium-Penetrating Mass Detected by Ultrasound Expedited Management of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Apr;33(4):290-292. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001092.

Abstract

A 6-year-old boy presented to the pediatric emergency department with a unilateral 5 × 3-cm superficial mass on the postauricular region growing for 1 month. Point-of-care ultrasound was used to evaluate the mass, which revealed a complex cystic mass penetrating the temporal bone. After confirmatory magnetic resonance imaging, the patient was transferred for neurosurgical evaluation, and the tumor was excised. Pathology revealed Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Child
  • Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
  • Male
  • Point-of-Care Systems
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultrasonography