About The Medical Condition Xanthoma Disseminatum

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Xanthoma Disseminatum

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Xanthoma Disseminatum Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Xanthoma Disseminatum?

Group of disorders which feature accumulations of active histiocytes and lymphocytes, but where the histiocytes are not Langerhans cells. The group includes hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, infection-associated hemophagocytic syndrome, sinus histiocytosis, xanthogranuloma, reticulohistiocytoma, juvenile xanthoma, xanthoma disseminatum, as well as the lipid storage diseases (sea-blue histiocyte syndrome and Niemann-Pick disease).

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