Congenital self-healing reticulohistiocytosis in neonate – a single lesion presentation

Abstract

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a proliferative disease of macrophage and dendrite cells.1 A separate clinical entity termed congenital self-healing reticulohistiocytosis (CSHRH), also known as HashimotoPritzker disease2,3 is characterized by skin lesions in the newborn period as a single system cutaneous presentation, in an otherwise healthy infant. The skin lesions spontaneously involutes within weeks to a few months.3,4