LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Describe the differential diagnosis of xanthelasma palpebrarum. 2. Discuss the various nonsurgical and surgical treatment options and their advantages and disadvantages. 3. Describe the circumstances in which recurrence is most likely after treatment. Xanthelasma palpebrarum is the most common cutaneous xanth...

Verruciform Xanthoma (VX) is a relatively rare benign mucocutaneous lesion of unknown aetiology. VX occurs predominantly in oral cavity which also occasionally affects skin and genital mucosa. It was first reported in the oral cavity in 1971. This rare harmless lesion usually presents as sessile or pedunculated, appear as a papule or single plaque showing verrucous or papillomatous mucosal grow...

ical examination because of epigastric discomfort. Esophagogastroscopy revealed a small, elevated, verrucoid pink-yellowish mucosal lesion, 3mm in diameter, in the upper third of the esophagus (●" Fig. 1). Low power histological examination revealed an exophytic lesion resembling a squamouspapilloma,with the typical papillomatosis, acanthosis, and hyperparakeratosis of the esophageal squamous e...

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...

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 ...