xanthoma disseminatum

Xanthoma disseminatum is a rare, usually self-healing dermatologic disease of unknown etiology. Involvement of other organs and tissues including bone marrow, bone, and brain may be seen rarely in children. Xanthoma disseminatum is a dendrocytic proliferation in rare non-Langerhans cell histiocytoses (class II histiocytoses).

Prognosis

 often resistant to treatment

Localization

 mucocutaneous
 ocular
 laryngeal
 pituitary
 central nervous system
 liver (16354260)

See also

 systemic histiocytoses

• non-Langerhans cell histiocytoses

 dermal dendrocytes
 dendrocytic tumors (dendrocytic proliferations)