Xanthoma disseminatum

  • Usually young adult onset, usually normolipemic (lesions look xanthomatous)
  • Many yellow, red or brown papules on face (especially eyelids), flexural, intertriginous, progress to disfiguring plaques
    • Self-healing, persistent, or progressive
  • Mucosal lesions in 40%, oral/airway > eye
  • CNS involvement in 40%, mild diabetes insipidus, sometimes gammopathies
  • Pathology
    • Similar to JXG, “scalloped” macrophages, hemosiderin
  • Organ-specific morbidity/mortality