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Hence, accurate and timely diagnosis is challenging given the rarity and varied presentation of ECD. The most common clinical manifestations are bone pain related to osteosclerosis, usually in the lower limbs. We report here a case with no obvious clinical manifestation of ECD preceding initial recurrent pleural effusions. The diagnosis of ECD was suggested based on pleural thickening revealed by relapsing pleural effusions combined with radiological finding of a coated aorta and slight perirenal infiltrate. Pleural biopsy revealed collagen fibrosis, and immunohistochemistry with the anti-CD163 antibody showed an important infiltration by histiocytes, strong cytoplasmic phosphorylated ERK in the lesional cells, and positive factor XIIIa staining. A cell-free DNA from peripheral blood revealed negative <jats:italic>BRAF<\/jats:italic> mutation and the presence of <jats:italic>MAP2K1<\/jats:italic> mutation, a key driver mutation in ECD. 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