An 18-year-old white man presented with a non-painful yellow raised swelling on the inferior limbus of his right eye. Systemic and ocular examination revealed no other abnormalities. The lesion was dealt with by simple excision, but when it recurred fairly soon it was removed in toto and replaced by a lamellar graft, without recurrence. Histological examination revealed a typical xanthogranulom...

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differential diagnosis is needed. Kraus et al. [3] examined 27 cases of xanthogranuloma. The mononuclear and xanthoma cells and most of the Touton cells exhibited reactivity for fascin and CD68, although 26 of 27 were reactive for HLA-DR, 25 of 27 for factor XIIIa, 25 of 27 for CD45, and 21 of 27 for CD4. None of the cases showed reactivity for CD1a, CD3, CD21, CD34, or CD35 [3]. When the patie...

Solid epididymal masses can be broadly classified into three categories: inflammatory mass, benign neoplasm, and malignant neoplasm. Examples of inflammatory processes include infectious epididymitis, fibrosis, sperm granuloma, and autoimmune disease. Benign neoplasms include adenomatoid tumor or leiomyoma. Malignant neoplasms include adenocarcinoma, embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma, and seminoma. Wh...

Palmer and Bowling [1] have recently described the dermoscopic features in 3 cases of juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG). A dermoscopic pattern characterized by orange-yellow background with ‘clouds’ of paler yellow deposits was observed in all patients. We have had recent occasion to observe many cases of single and multiple JXG and noted a further constant dermoscopic feature, namely branched and...

JUVENILE xanthogranuloma, also commonly known as naevoxantho-endothelioma, was first described as a skin disease in 1909 (McDonaugh, 1909), but it was not until forty years later that the first intra-ocular case was reported in America (Blank, Eglick, and Beerman, 1949). Some twenty to thirty cases have since been described (Sanders, 1962), but our case is the first to be reported in the United...

J uvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) is a benign, selflimiting disorder that typically involves the cutaneous regions of the head and neck. Infrequently, the oral cavity is involved, which presents unique diagnostic and treatment considerations. We present the first descriptive case report of a large, entirely submucosal JXG of the tongue. Withdrawal from review was granted by the Institutional Revi...