Successful Treatment of Diffuse Normolipemic Plane Xanthoma with Probucol

• Main Authors: Fumi Miyagawa (Author), Takaya Fukumoto (Author), Nobuhiko Kobayashi (Author), Hideo Asada (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Karger Publishers, 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We report on a 70-year-old woman with diffuse normolipemic plane xanthoma (DNPX) who developed macular yellowish patches on the eyelids, both cheeks, and the nose. Histology revealed the accumulation of CD68-positive foam cells and Touton giant cells in the superficial dermis. Plasma lipid levels we...