Diseases

Juvenile Xanthogranuloma

Benign disorder of infants and children caused by proliferation of HISTIOCYTES, macrophages found in tissues. These histiocytes, usually lipid-laden non-Langerhans cells, form multiple yellow-red nodules most often in the skin, the eye, and sometimes in the viscera. Patients appear to have normal lipid metabolism and are classified as a normolipemic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

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Benign disorder of infants and children caused by proliferation of HISTIOCYTES, macrophages found in tissues. These histiocytes, usually lipid-laden non-Langerhans cells, form multiple yellow-red nodules most often in the skin, the eye, and sometimes in the viscera. Patients appear to have normal lipid metabolism and are classified as a normolipemic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

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  • Nevoxanthoendothelioma
  • Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile
  • Xanthoma, Juvenile
  • Juvenile Xanthogranulomas
  • Juvenile Xanthoma
  • Juvenile Xanthomas
  • Nevoxanthoendotheliomas
  • Xanthogranulomas, Juvenile
  • Xanthomas, Juvenile

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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non-neoplastic

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History Note

92; was XANTHOMA, JUVENILE 1963-91 (Prov 1963-66); XANTHOGRANULOMA, JUVENILE was see XANTHOMA, JUVENILE 1979-91

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Juvenile Xanthogranuloma. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014972. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014972
  2. Juvenile Xanthogranuloma. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_xanthogranuloma
  3. Juvenile Xanthogranuloma. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3570558