Digestive tract symptoms in congenital langerhans cell histiocytosis: a fatal condition in an illness usually considered benign.

Introduction: Congenital Langerhans cell histiocytosis is usually limited to cutaneous lesions and has a good prognosis. In rare cases of gut involvement, mortality is high and early and aggressive treatment essential.

Materials And Methods: We report a case of histiocytosis in a newborn with bowel involvement, and performed a literature review of 13 similar cases worldwide documented between 1973 and 2008.

Splenic haemorrhage in a newborn as the first manifestation of wandering spleen syndrome.

Wandering spleen is an unusual condition in children and is even more rarely diagnosed in the neonatal period. A case of splenic haemorrhage after dystocic birth in a newborn is reported. Before surgery, results of imaging studies were suggestive of a ruptured spleen.