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)