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Diffuse‐plane normolipaemic xanthoma with aortic‐valve xanthoma
Author(s) -
WINKELMANN R. K.,
MCEVOY M. T.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1991.tb00292.x
Subject(s) - xanthoma , medicine , aortic valve , pathology , histiocyte , histiocytosis , disease
Summary A patient with diffuse‐plane normolipaemic xanthomatosis had mucous‐membrane, conjunctival, and aortic‐valve xanthomatosis. The presence of a monoclonal protein and hypocomplementaemia suggests that the xanthomatous lesions were probably not metabolic in origin but developed as secondary events in a histiocytosis of involved tissues. No heart‐valve xanthomatization in like circumstances has previously been reported.