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Medical condition

Xanthoma disseminatum
Other names	Disseminated xanthosiderohistiocytosis and Montgomery syndrome
Specialty	Endocrinology

Xanthoma disseminatum is a rare cutaneous condition that preferentially affects males in childhood, characterized by the insidious onset of small, yellow-red to brown papules and nodules that are discrete and disseminated.

It is a histiocytosis syndrome.

References

Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 978-1-4160-2999-1.
^ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
Alexander AS, Turner R, Uniate L, Pearcy RG (February 2005). "Xanthoma disseminatum: a case report and literature review". Br J Radiol. 78 (926): 153–7. doi:10.1259/bjr/27500851. PMID 15681329.

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Classification	D ICD-10: E78.2 (ILDS E78.240)

Inborn error of lipid metabolism: dyslipidemia

Hyperlipidemia

Hypolipoproteinemia

Hypoalphalipoproteinemia/HDL	Lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase deficiency Tangier disease
Hypobetalipoproteinemia/LDL	Abetalipoproteinemia Apolipoprotein B deficiency Chylomicron retention disease

Lipodystrophy

Barraquer–Simons syndrome

Other

v t e Histiocytosis
WHO-I/Langerhans cell histiocytosis/ X-type histiocytosis	Letterer–Siwe disease Hand–Schüller–Christian disease Eosinophilic granuloma Congenital self-healing reticulohistiocytosis
WHO-II/non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis/ Non-X histiocytosis	Juvenile xanthogranuloma Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis Erdheim-Chester disease Niemann–Pick disease Sea-blue histiocytosis Benign cephalic histiocytosis Generalized eruptive histiocytoma Xanthoma disseminatum Progressive nodular histiocytosis Papular xanthoma Hereditary progressive mucinous histiocytosis Reticulohistiocytosis (Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis, Reticulohistiocytoma) Indeterminate cell histiocytosis
WHO-III/malignant histiocytosis	Histiocytic sarcoma Langerhans cell sarcoma Interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma
Ungrouped	Rosai–Dorfman disease

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