1. Central xanthoma of the mandible associated with hyperlipidemia: A rare presentation.
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Brooks JK, Mostoufi B, Sultan AS, Khoury ZH, Price JB, Papadimitriou JC, Basile JR, Drachenberg CB, and Younis RH
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- Adolescent, Cone-Beam Computed Tomography, Humans, Male, Vitamin D Deficiency complications, Hyperlipidemias complications, Mandible pathology, Xanthomatosis pathology
- Abstract
Xanthoma is a common, self-limiting cutaneous lesion of non-Langerhans cell, lipid-laden foamy histiocytes that is often concomitant with hyperlipidemia. The intraosseous counterpart is rarely encountered and typically presents as a painless, expansile osteolytic process in the context of hyperlipidemia or normolipidemia. Only a scant number of gnathic xanthomas have been reported in the otolaryngologic literature. We report the clinical, laboratory, radiographic, histopathologic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural studies of a mandibular lesion discovered in an asymptomatic 16-year-old male, and associated with 2 previously unreported comorbidities, namely hyperlipidemia and vitamin D deficiency., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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