Tendinous xanthoma

Eruptive xanthoma.

History A two-month-old girl with unremarkable birth history presented with sudden onset of erythematous papules on the limbs and face for one week. There was no systemic upset, and she remained asymptomatic. Her sister had a history of hypertriglyceridaemia under treatment. The patient's other family members enjoyed good physical health and there was no family history of premature coronary hea...

Xanthoma of the Breast

In a series of nine hundred (circa) tumors of the breast in which the preoperative diagnosis was carcinoma, histologic examination showed that in three instances the lesion was a xanthoma. Although the diagnostic error in reference to xanthoma was, therefore, small, the rarity of these tumors and their relation to abnormal lipoid metabolism prompts a discussion of them, as well as of the xantho...

Xanthoma disseminatum: case report.

Xanthoma disseminatum is a rare, benign, non-Langerhans' cell histiocytic disorder of unknown etiology. A case is presented of a 71-year-old man with a three-year history of disseminated symmetric yellowish papules and plaques on the skin of the face, neck, flexor regions, trunk, extremities and oral mucosa, with fatty infiltration of the liver and pancreas, and cardiac complaints. Xanthomatous...

Xanthoma striatum palmare

Fifty-year-old female without a known disease was admitted with weakness and fatigue. In family history, her sister had a myocardial infarction when she was 55 years old and hypertriglyceridemia, her father and mother have hypertension but don’t have dyslipidemia. On physical examination body weight 76 kg, height 165 cm, body mass index 27.9 kg/m2, abdominal circumference 92 cm, xanthomas were ...

Lipid Studies in Xanthoma