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Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile
Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases > Lymphatic Diseases > Histiocytosis > Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell > Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile

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Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Juvenile Xanthoma
  • Juvenile Xanthomas
  • Nevoxanthoendothelioma
  • Nevoxanthoendotheliomas
  • Xanthoma, Juvenile
  • Xanthomas, Juvenile

Note

  • non-neoplastic

Scope note

  • Benign disorder of infants and children caused by proliferation of HISTIOCYTES, macrophages found in tissues. These histiocytes, usually lipid-laden non-Langerhans cells, form multiple yellow-red nodules most often in the skin, the eye, and sometimes in the viscera. Patients appear to have normal lipid metabolism and are classified as a normolipemic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

History note

  • 92; was XANTHOMA, JUVENILE 1963-91 (Prov 1963-66); XANTHOGRANULOMA, JUVENILE was see XANTHOMA, JUVENILE 1979-91

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014972

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